On March 29, 2019 Ambassador of Sri Lanka to the Russian Federation H.E. Dr. Dayan Jayatilleka had a bilateral meeting with his Italian counterpart H.E. Pasquale Terracciano, a veteran diplomat, who served as Diplomatic Adviser to the Italian Prime Minister and Prime Minister's G8 and G20 Sherpa Representative, Chief of Cabinet to the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Head of Information and Press Office and Spokesman for the Minister of Foreign Affairs as well as Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to Spain and Great Britain before he assumed his duties as Head of Diplomatic Mission in Moscow.

The two Ambassadors discussed the current political situation and configuration in Italy, and its historical evolution as well as the ideas of the Italian political thinker Antonio Gramsci, the eminent figure of international communism and the labor movement and founder of the Italian Communist Party, who was imprisoned by Benito Mussolini's Fascist regime.
Ambassador H.E. Pasquale Terracciano informed Ambassador Jayatilleka that there will be an Exhibition displaying the original manuscripts of Gramsci's famous 'Prison Notebooks' later this year in Moscow. Gramsci's grandson, who is living in the Russian capital city, will also share some of the materials from the family collection. Ambassador Terracciano said he wished to invite the Ambassador and Madame Jayatilleka to attend the exposition, which Ambassador Jayatilleka gladly accepted.