Kaneya Manabu, former head of the Saitama Prefectural Police Department in Japan, once gave up a monthly salary of more than 100 million VND and a stable life to move to Viet Nam. Over the past nine years, the Vietnamese language has become the bond connecting him with the country and people of Viet Nam, while opening a path for him to rediscover himself.

Russian scholar Pyotr Tsvetov preserves books by Vietnamese revolutionary veterans such as books on the fundamental formation of Ho Chi Minh's ideology, or on the Russian October Revolution and Vietnam.

The Institute of China and Contemporary Asia (ICCA) under the Russian Academy of Sciences inaugurated a Vietnam library in Moscow on February 22.

Grigory Mikhailovich Lokshin, a well-known Russian expert in Vietnamese studies, passed away following a long period illness.