the speaker of the federation council not only colleague friend chairman of the local senate mabel chernomon. they met last year at the eurasian women's forum. the program of the visit is a close meeting one after another in the early morning with the president of the republic hanging in zimbabwe, a good opportunity to strengthen bilateral ties. both inter-parliamentary and interstate, we have long-term political relations with russia for 16 years. we fought a war for independence by british colonists after gaining independence, we established diplomatic relations with the ussr and then from russian federation, we have excellent relations with vladimir putin zimbabwe is a reliable partner of russia not only in bilateral relations, but also in the international arena, the president of the republic stressed that the position of his country, balanced and independently speaking about anti-russian sanctions , recently received a letter from the us administration with a strong recommendation . not to conduct economic and military-technical relations with russia is the answer. zimbabwe is a decided