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The DPRK embassy in Moscow hosted a reception on August 14 on the occasion of the 80th anniversary of Korea's liberation. Present there at invitation were Minister of Natural Resources and Ecology Alexandr Kozlov, Vice Foreign Minister Sergei Lyavkov, Vice-Minister of Defence Alexandr Fomin and other personages of the government, political parties, organizations and institutions of Russia, including the Foreign Ministry, the Ministry of Defence, the Ministry of Interior, the Ministry of Transport, the Ministry of Science and High Education, the Ministry of Health, the Ministry of Agriculture, the Ministry of Culture, the Party for Peace and Unity and the Russian Association for Friendship and Cultural Cooperation with the DPRK and the Railway Co. Ltd. On hand were DPRK Ambassador to Russia Sin Hong Chol and staff members of his embassy. The participants laid a flower basket and bouquets before the art work depicting President Kim Il Sung and Chairman Kim Jong Il standing together and paid tribute to them. Then they looked round the photos showing the noble revolutionary careers and exploits of the President and the Chairman, the immortal exploits performed by the respectedComrade Kim Jong Un for the development of the DPRK-Russia relations of friendship, immortal classic works of the peerlessly great men, and photos showing the invincible national power and proud development of the DPRK. Speeches were made at the reception. The Pyongyang Times, launched on May 6, 1965, is the DPRK's only English newspaper. It gives latest, detailed information about what is going on in the country in politics, the economy, culture and other sectors. And the paper also provides a vast knowledge of the nooks and crannies of Pyongyang.