Sergey Lavrov
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Sergey Viktorovich Lavrov is a Russian diplomat who has served as Minister of Foreign Affairs since 2004. He is the country's longest-serving foreign minister since the Soviet era.
Lavrov in 2022
Sergey Lavrov in Moscow, 17 September 2004
Lavrov meets with President George W. Bush in the Oval Office of the White House, 7 March 2006
Lavrov meets with President Barack Obama in the Oval Office of the White House, 7 May 2009
Sinhala language
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Sinhala, sometimes called Sinhalese, is an Indo-Aryan language primarily spoken by the Sinhalese people of Sri Lanka, who make up the largest ethnic group on the island, numbering about 16 million. It
Sergey Lavrov
…graduating from the Moscow State Institute of International Relations (MGIMO) in 1972, Lavrov began his diplomatic career in Sri Lanka and speaks fluent Sinhala, Dhivehi, English, and French, in addition to his native Russian. From 1981 to 1988 he held several posts in the Soviet Permanent Mission to the United…
There are 1,500 poems written in the 6th–10th centuries on the Sigiriya Mirror Wall. These poems are believed to have been composed by pilgrims who came to visit the Buddhist monastery of Sigiriya, which was active at this time.
Letters of the Sinhalese script