June 6, Pyongyang (DPRK ISG Information Bureau - RSTV)   

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A Russian youth friendship delegation led by Grigory Petushkov, Chairman of the National Council of the Russian Association of Youth and Children, arrived here by air on Monday.

The delegation consists of representatives of major youth organizations and units of Russia, including the National Council of the Russian Association of Youth and Children, the Youth Union and the Lenin Young Communist League.

Alexander Mostov, Chairman of the Coordination Committee of the DPRK International Solidarity Group (DPRK ISG), personally saw off the activists of our organization who were part of the delegation.

Comrade Mostov noted that for the second time in less than six months, senior official of the Solidarity Group are part of an important delegation from Russia: this is an obvious result that no solidarity organization has achieved. According to him, such trust indicates the correctness of the course of the central committee of our Group, which has firmly taken a course towards multi-vector development and is achieving significant results.

On our side, the delegation also included comrades Nikita Dobrov (Сandidate Member of the Central Committee of the Komsomol of the Russian Federation, Member of the Coordination Committee of the DPRK ISG and Regional Secretary of the Russian Executive Committee in the Northwestern Federal District), Ilya Kleimenov (Deputy Chairman of the Central Committee of the Communist Party "Communists of Russia", Adviser of the Coordination Committee of the DPRK ISG) and Dmitry Slitinsky (Secretary of the Tver Regional Branch of the Communist Party "Communists of Russia" and Activist of the Russian Executive Committee of the DPRK ISG). They were presented with new-style Solidarity Badges made by Stanislav Vasiliev.

The Central Committee of the Socialist Patriotic Youth League of the DPRK hosted a reception in welcome of the delegation that evening.