Hanoi, Nov. 25 -- State President Luong Cuong on November 25 received Governor of Russia's Kaluga oblast Vladislav Valerievich Shapsha, who is on a working visit to Vietnam. President Cuong affirmed that the Party, State, and people of Vietnam always remember the affection, support, and assistance that the people of the former Soviet Union and the Russian Federation today have given to Vietnam in its past struggle for national liberation, its post-war reconstruction, and in the current process of building and developing the nation. He emphasised that, in the context of a rapidly and complexly changing world, Vietnam always values and wishes to continuously nurture and develop the longstanding friendship and the comprehensive strategic par...