The Embassy of the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka in the Russian Federation expresses its deepest condolences to those who lost relatives and friends in the tragic plane fire that took place at the Sheremetyevo International Airport in Moscow on May 5, 2019, claiming lives of 41 people.

The Embassy also wishes the passengers of the flight SU 1492, injured in the plane blaze, a speedy and full recovery.

On May 6, 2019 a Book of Condolence was open at the Embassy of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam in Moscow for General Le Duc Anh, the former President of Vietnam, who had died aged 99.
General Le Duc Anh was a communist veteran of Vietnam's wars against France's colonial rule and American forces propping up the South, but later presided over the restoration of diplomatic relations with former enemies. In 1975 he marched through Vietnam's former southern capital of Saigon at the head of the parade celebrating the victory of the north, an end of a decade-long war and the country's long dreamed-of reunification.

On 26th April 2019, Mr. Ranga Bandaranayake, an experienced well-known Sri Lankan TV drama and programme producer, son of a Sri Lankan film director and playwright, Kala Keerthi Dharmasiri Bandaranayake, won the golden award for his film The Silence (නිහැඩියාව) under the category of "Civil society" - Documentary films devoted to the fight for civil rights, at the XXI International Festival of Detective Films and Television programs on Law-Enforcement Themes "DetectiveFEST", which was held in Moscow on April 22nd - 28th 2019.

On April 30, 2019, Ambassador Jayatilleka, accompanied by Mr. Dulmith Waruna, First Secretary of the Embassy of Sri Lanka, attended a meeting at the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia, organized by the Russian Foreign Ministry for the Heads and staff members of the Diplomatic Missions in Moscow. The meeting was opened by Hon. H. E. Sergei Ryabkov, Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs, who spoke on common tasks of the Russian MFA and MIA and on international cooperation.

On April 26, 2019 H. E. Dr. Dayan Jayatilleka, Ambassador of Sri Lanka in Russia, and an official Sri Lankan delegation, comprised of Mr. N.K.G.K Nammawatta, Secretary, State Ministry of Defence of Sri Lanka, and Mr. Wimal S.K. Liyanagama, Senior Assistant Secretary, Defence, held a meeting with Deputy Director of the Federal Service for Military and Technical Cooperation (FSMTC) Mr. Mikhail Petukhov, as well as other officials of the authority and a representative of the JSC Rosoboronexport.