List of diplomatic visits to Russia

A list of international diplomatic trips made by heads of state and heads of government to the Russian Federation.

2018

Table of trips

Country	Guest	Title	Dates	Reason
Argentina	Mauricio Macri	President	23 January	Official visit.
Israel	Benjamin Netanyahu	Prime Minister	29 January	Working visit. Vladimir Putin and Benjamin Netanyahu visited the Jewish Museum and Tolerance Center, where they will take part in the events timed to the International Holocaust Remembrance Day and the anniversary of the complete lifting of the Nazi siege of Leningrad.
Belgium	Charles Michel	Prime Minister	30-31 January	Working visit. Also met with Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev on 30 January.
Jordan	Abdullah II	King	15 February	Working visit.
Austria	Sebastian Kurz	Chancellor	28 February	Working visit.
Madagascar	Hery Rajaonarimampianina	President	2 March	Working visit. Met with Deputy Foreign Minister Mikhail Bogdanov.
Qatar	Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani	Emir	26 March	Working visit.
Serbia	Aleksandar Vučić	President	8-9 May	See also: 2018 Moscow Victory Day Parade Working visit to attend the 73rd anniversary of Victory in the Great Patriotic War.
Israel	Benjamin Netanyahu	Prime Minister	9 May	See also: 2018 Moscow Victory Day Parade Working visit to attend the 73rd anniversary of Victory in the Great Patriotic War.
Armenia	Nikol Pashinyan	Prime Minister	14 May	Meeting of the Supreme Eurasian Economic Council. Also held separate meetings with the leaders of Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan.
Belarus	Alexander Lukashenko	President
Kazakhstan	Nursultan Nazarbayev	President
Kyrgyzstan	Sooronbay Jeenbekov	President
Moldova	Igor Dodon	President	14 May	Met with President Putin while attending the Supreme Eurasian Economic Council.
Syria	Bashar al-Assad	President	17 May	Working visit to Sochi.
Germany	Angela Merkel	Chancellor	18 May	Working visit to Sochi.
India	Narendra Modi	Prime Minister	21 May	Working visit to Sochi.
Bulgaria	Rumen Radev	President	21-22 May	Working visit to Sochi to attend the events marking the 140th anniversary of Bulgaria’s liberation during the 1877–1878 Russian-Turkish War. Also met with Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev on 21 May in Moscow.
Central African Republic	Faustin-Archange Touadéra	President	23-25 May	Working visit to Sankt Petersburg while attending attended the XXII St. Petersburg International Economic Forum; visited Moscow.
Moldova	Igor Dodon	President	23-27 May	Working visit to Sankt Petersburg; attended the XXII St. Petersburg International Economic Forum. Also visit to Valaam Monastery.
France	Emmanuel Macron	President	24-25 May	Official visit to Sankt Petersburg; attended the XXII St. Petersburg International Economic Forum.
Japan	Shinzo Abe	Prime Minister	24-26 May	Visit to Sankt Petersburg; attended the XXII St. Petersburg International Economic Forum. Also visit to Moscow on 26 May.
Bulgaria	Boyko Borisov	Prime Minister	30 May	Working visit.
United Arab Emirates	Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan	Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi	1 June	Working visit.
South Korea	Moon Jae-in	President	21-23 June	State visit on 21-22 June. Also will visit Rostov on Don for FIFA World Cup match.

2001

Table of trips

Country/ Organization	Guest	Title	Dates	Reason
Germany	Gerhard Schröder	Chancellor	6-7 January	Visit to Moscow and Trinity Lavra of St. Sergius in Sergiyev Posad.
Moldova	Dumitru Braghis	Prime Minister	16 January	Working visit.
Netherlands	Wim Kok	Prime Minister	19 January	Working visit.
Israel	Moshe Katsav	President	23 January	Working visit.
Finland	Paavo Lipponen	Prime Minister	24 January	Working visit.
NATO	George Robertson	Secretary General	20 February	Working visit.
Nigeria	Olusegun Obasanjo	President	5-7 March	Working visit.
Iran	Mohammad Khatami	President	12 March	Working visit.
Slovenia	Janez Drnovsek	Prime Minister	24 March	Working visit.
Japan	Yoshiro Mori	Prime Minister	25 March	Working visit to Irkutsk. Also visited Shelekhov.
Italy	Giuliano Amato	Prime Minister	29 March	Working visit.
Lithuania	Valdas Adamkus	President	30 March	Working visit.
Belarus	Alexander Lukashenko	President	2 April	The Supreme State Council of the Union State of Russia and Belarus.
Algeria	Abdelaziz Bouteflika	President	4 April	Working visit.
Germany	Gerhard Schröder	Chancellor	9-10 April	Working visit to Saint Petersburg. Visit for the St Petersburg Dialogue, a Russian-German forum.
Moldova	Vladimir Voronin	President	16 April	Working visit.
Iraq	Taha Yassin Ramadan	Vice-President	18 April	Working visit.
Gabon	Omar Bongo	President	24 April	Official visit.
Egypt	Hosni Mubarak	President	27 April	Working visit.
Uzbekistan	Islam Karimov	President	3-4 May	Working visit.
OSCE	Adrian Severin	Chairman	11 May	Working visit.
Venezuela	Hugo Chavez	President	14 May	Working visit.
United Nations	Kofi Annan	Secretary General	15 May	Working visit.
European Union Sweden	Göran Persson	President	17 May	Meeting Russia-EU. Prime Minister of Sweden as President of the European Council.
European Union	Romano Prodi	President
Sweden	Göran Persson	Prime Minister	17 May	Working visit.
Spain	Jose Maria Aznar	Prime Minister	21-22 May	Officiall visit.
Palestine	Yasser Arafat	President	29 May	Working visit.
Netherlands	Beatrix	Queen	5 June	State visit. The first visit of a Dutch Queen to Russia in the history of Russian-Dutch relations.
Norway	Jens Stoltenberg	Prime Minister	19 June	Working visit.
Belarus	Alexander Lukashenko	President	20 June	Working visit.
Austria	Thomas Klestil	President	23-24 June	Working visit to Moscow; Saint Petersburg and Peterhoff.

2000

Table of trips

Country/ Organization	Guest	Title	Dates	Reason
United Kingdom	Tony Blair	Prime Minister	11 March	Working visit to Saint Petersburg.
Japan	Yoshirō Mori	Prime Minister	29 April	Working visit to Saint Petersburg.
Belarus	Alexander Lukashenko	President	3 May	Working visit to Prokhorovka, Belgorod Oblast.
Ukraine	Leonid Kuchma	President
European Union Portugal	António Guterres	President	29 May	Meeting Russia-EU. Prime Minister of Portugal as President of the European Council.
European Union	Romano Prodi	President
Portugal	António Guterres	Prime Minister	29 May	Working visit.
United States	Bill Clinton	President	3-5 June	Summit meeting. Addressed the Duma.
Finland	Tarja Halonen	President	7 June	Working visit.
Armenia	Robert Kocharyan	President	19-22 June	Meeting of the Council of Commonwealth of Independent States heads of state on 21 June. Met with President of Azerbaijan on 22 May. Bilateral meetings with the presidents of Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Armenia and Belarus on 22 May. Met with President of Ukraine on 21 May. Vladimir Putin held a four-party meeting with the leaders of Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia on 20 June. A trilateral meeting with the Presidents of Armenia and Azerbaijan was also held. Also met with the President of Georgia. Met with President of Kazakhstan on 19 June.
Azerbaijan	Heydar Aliyev	President
Belarus	Alexander Lukashenko	President
Georgia	Eduard Shevardnadze	President
Kazakhstan	Nursultan Nazarbayev	President
Kyrgyzstan	Askar Akayev	President
Moldova	Petru Lucinschi	President
Tajikistan	Emomalii Rahmon	President
Turkmenistan	Saparmurat Niyazov	President
Ukraine	Leonid Kuchma	President
Uzbekistan	Islam Karimov	President
Brazil	Marco Maciel	Vice President	23 June	Working visit.
Greece	Konstantinos Stephanopoulos	President	26 June	Working visit.
Belarus	Alexander Lukashenko	President	27 June	A meeting of the Supreme State Council of the Union State of Russia and Belarus.
Kyrgyzstan	Askar Akayev	President	27 July	Working visit.
Moldova	Petru Lucinschi	President	28 July	Working visit.
Tajikistan	Emomalii Rahmon	President	15 August15 August	Working visit to Sochi.
Vietnam	Phan Văn Khải	Prime Minister	12 September	Working visit.
Germany	Gerhard Schröder	Chancellor	25 September	Working visit.
Armenia	Robert Kocharyan	President	26 September	Working visit.
Sweden	Göran Persson	Prime Minister	27 September	Working visit.
Ukraine	Leonid Kuchma	President	16 October	Working visit to Sochi.
Belarus	Alexander Lukashenko	President	16 October	Working visit to Sochi.
Yugoslavia	Vojislav Kostunica	President	27 October	Working visit.
Kazakhstan	Nursultan Nazarbayev	President	18 November	Working visit.
United Kingdom	Tony Blair	Prime Minister	20-21 November	Russian-British summit. Also met with Prime Minister Mikhail Kasyanov.
Italy	Carlo Azeglio Ciampi	President	27-28 November	State visit.
Belgium	Guy Verhofstadt	Prime Minister	20 December	Working visit.
Ukraine	Leonid Kuchma	President	21 December	Working visit to Moscow and Saint Petersburg.

See also

• Foreign relations of Russia
• List of international presidential trips made by Vladimir Putin
• State visit

External links

• Official Internet Resources of the President of Russia

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