the king's first visit to our country took place in 2008, then hamad bensaal khalifa visited russia in014 and 2016. russia and bahrain also maintains regular contacts at the level of foreign ministers. in 2013, the days of bahrain culture were held in moscow and st. petersburg; in 2013 , the first bilateral cultural forum of cultural diversity was held in the kingdom as a basis for dialogue. in general, the russian president has a busy work schedule after. relations to a qualitatively new level, and i want to assure you that we legislators, through parliament, will do everything to ensure that these agreements are necessarily implemented. i see that everything moscow welcomes our visit, we have signed a number of agreements in various fields, including economics, science and culture. the agreements are in addition to the existing agreements between our countries and we hope. that they will contribute to the development of our bilateral relations. of course, our brothers in the region also highly appreciate that russia is ready to grow with us and move forward. in all arab issues, russi