On January 28, 2019 Ambassador Jayatilleka paid a courtesy call on his Pakistani counterpart, a veteran diplomat Ambassador Qazi M. Khalilullah. Ambassador Qazi M. Khalilullah served as spokesman of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs before he assumed his duty as Head of Mission in Moscow.
Ambassador Jayatilleka was warmly welcomed in the premises with more than 100 years of history.

On January 25, 2019 Ambassador H.E. Dr. Dayan Jayatilleka and Madame Sanja Jayatilleka attended the reception dedicated to the 70th Anniversary of Republic Day in India, at the invitation of the Indian Ambassador H.E. D Bala Venkatesh Varma and his spouse Madame Vidya Datla Varma. The Constitution of India came into force on January 26, 1950. The reception was attended by representatives of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and State Authorities, Ambassadors and Defence Attaches of foreign countries.

On January 24, 2019, Ambassador Dr. Dayan Jayatilleka paid a courtesy visit to the Embassy of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela in Moscow and met with his colleague, H. E. Carlos Rafael Faria Tortosa.

On January 24, 2019 Ambassador of Sri Lanka to the Russian Federation Dr. Dayan Jayatilleka and Madame Sanja Jayatilleka visited the prominent Moscow State Institute of International Relations, University of Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MGIMO). Ambassador Jayatilleka and Madame Jayatilleka were received by the Rector of MGIMO Anatoly Torkunov, the Vice-Rector Andrey Baykov and a Head of Oriental Studies Department, Professor of History Dmitriy Streltsov.

On January 23, 2019 Ambassador Jayatilleka commenced his visits to Academicians having met with Professor Alexander Lukin, Doctor in History and Head of Faculty of World Economy and International Affairs/ School of International Affairs at the Higher School of Economics, Moscow. Dr. Lukin is an expert on China and in 2009 he was one of 60 Russians awarded by President Hu Jintao a medal for the "Outstanding Contribution to the Development of Sino-Russian Relations."

On January 22, 2019 Deputy Minister of Defense Colonel General Alexander Fomin held a meeting with Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka to the Russian Federation Doctor Dayan Jayatilleka.