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On January 21-28, 2016, the 12th Congress of the ruling Communist Party of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam (CPV) took place in Hanoi. This important event in the public and political life of that country was the topic of a round-table discussion organized by the Center for Vietnam and ASEAN Studies at the Institute for Far Eastern Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences, held on February 25, 2016. About one hundred scholars of Vietnam and experts on Russian foreign policy, scholars from various research centers of Russia, deputies to the State Duma [parliament] of the Russian Federation, officials of the RF Foreign Ministry and other government agencies, representatives of the Eurasian Economic Commission, the Embassy of Vietnam to the RF, and Russia's Trade Mission in Vietnam, public organizations and business circles, Russian and Vietnamese mass media, and students and postgraduates of Moscow higher educational institutions attended the function.
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