They laid floral baskets, bouquets and flowers before the portraits of smiling President Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il and the full-length picture of them and paid tribute to them. The visitors included the first vice-chairman of the Federation Council of Russia, the minister of Development of Far East, the vice-president of the Supreme Court, the director of its International Cooperation Department, the deputy director of the General Department of the International Military Cooperation of the Ministry of Defense, the director of the Asia 1 Department of the Foreign Ministry, the special advisor to the director of the External Intelligence Bureau, the deputy director of the International Cooperation Department of the Ministry of Extraordinary Situation, the deputy director for Foreign Relations of the Federal Emigration Bureau, a deputy director of the "Russian Railways" Company, deputies to the State Duma, the deputy director of the International Department of the Liberal De

mocratic Party of Russia, a secretary of the Central Committee of the All-Union Communist Party of Bolsheviks, the international secretary of the C.C., the Communist Party-Party of Communists of Russia, the first secretary of the C.C., the Lenin Young Communist League of the Russian Federation, the chairman of the Moscow Workers' Union, the chief of the Korean Affairs Section of the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Academy of Sciences, the chairman of the Russian Association for Friendship and Cultural Cooperation with the DPRK, the director of the State Academic Igor Moiseyev Dance Company, the deputy director of the State Academy Beryozka Dancing Troupe of Russia Named after N. S. Nadezhdina, secretary of the Khabarovsk Territorial Committee of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation and the vice-mayor of Nizhuny Novgorod City.