Moscow, May 12 -- Russian experts and scholars have expressed their confidence that the visit to Russia by General Secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam Central Committee To Lam for an official visit and attendance at the ceremony marking the 80th anniversary of the Victory in the Great Patriotic War will usher in a new chapter in bilateral relations, with 20 agreements signed. Professor Vladimir Kolotov, head of the Department of History of the Far East Countries and Director of the Ho Chi Minh Institute at Saint Petersburg University, noted that the trip highlighted Vietnam's consistent policy of independence and sovereignty - the result of decades of struggle for independence, freedom, and self-determination. The top Vietnamese l...