General Phan Van Giang, member of the Politburo, Deputy Secretary of the Central Military Commission and Minister of National Defence started his working visit to Russia with a range of activities on August 11. He led a high-ranking delegation of the Ministry of National Defence to pay floral tribute to President Ho Chi Minh's monument in Moscow; visited a building next to Moscow's Kremlin where President Ho Chi Minh worked from 1923 to 1924. On the same day, the delegation also visited the Vietnamese Embassy in Russia. Source: Vietnam News Agency