Kurdistan president to visit Russia to participate in an economic conference
A source in the presidency of the province said in a press statement Sunday that "the president of the region will visit Russia in the next few days to participate in the World Economic conference in Saint Petersburg."
Massoud Barzani's last visit to Russia was in February 2013, returned to Erbil on Feb. 24, at the end of an 5-day official visit to the Russian Federation.
During his stay in Moscow last February, Barzani also visited the headquarters of the oil and gas giant Gazprom and met with Chairman of the Management Committee Alexey Miller.
Barzani also visited in Moscow his father Malla Mustafa Barzani’s residence,sixty years after the Kurdish leader inhabited in Moscow, due to Mahabad revolution defeat in Iranian Kurdistan in 1946.
