Russia coming back to Bangladesh

Russia is stepping up public diplomacy to make a "comeback" in Bangladesh as it is doing in other South Asian countries.
Russian ambassador in Dhaka Nikolaev Alexander said Friday the relationship between the two countries was experiencing “a renaissance now” and “Russia is coming back to Bangladesh, ‘seriously’ and ‘for long time’”. The ambassador's effusive remark was made in the presence of the Deputy Head of Russian Federal Agency for Cooperation with Foreign Countries (Rossotrudnichestvo), Alexander Chesnokov, currently in Dhaka. Chesnokov is in city  on a visit to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the Russian Centre of Science and Culture in the city. Russia-Bangladesh relations began in 1971 when the then Soviet Union stood by the side of Bangladesh’s freedom fighters in their struggle against Pakistan, according to a news agency.