The Russian Energy Week (REW) International Forum is taking place on October 3-6, 2018 in the Central Exhibition Hall 'Manège' in Moscow. The special plenary session of the Forum was attended by Russian President Vladimir Putin, who addressed the audience with his speech "Sustainable Energy for a Changing World".

Mr. Ramaz Chanturiya, General Director of Rusteacoffee – the country-wide association of tea and coffee importers and producers under the wing of the Russian Ministry of Agriculture, paid a courtesy call to the Ambassador H.E. Dr. Dayan Jayatilleka on October 2nd, 2018.

On October 1st, 2018, Sri Lankan Embassy officials met with His Holiness the Gyalwang Drukpa, environmentalist, educator and the spiritual head of the Drukpa Lineage, one of the main Buddhist schools of the Himalayas founded by the great Indian saint Naropa.