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2011.
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| Summary/Abstract |
ONE CAN ONLY WELCOME the initiative of the Council of Veterans of the RF Ministry of Foreign Affairs to publish a collection of reminiscences by retired Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary Anatoly Zaitsev of the years he spent in the diplomatic service in Hanoi (A.S. Zaitsev, Vspominaya Vietnam [Remembering Vietnam], Moscow, RFK-Imidzh Publishers, 2010) by the 60th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between Russia and Vietnam.
"We sift everything through our memories," said Russian President Dmitry Medvedev at his meeting with graduates from Soviet and Russian higher education institutions during a recent visit to Vietnam. "We are who we are precisely because we have a memory and we have a past. The past of our nations and of our states is based on friendship and mutual assistance, particularly during the time Vietnam was fighting for its independence."
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