Signing of Russian-Chinese military contract in Moscow

Russia. Moscow. Leonid Grigoryevich Ivashov, Chief of the Main Directorate for International Military Cooperation of the Russian Defense Ministry, Xiong Guankai, Deputy Chief of the General Staff of the People's Liberation Army of China (from left to right in the foreground), Igor Dmitrievich Sergeyev, Minister of Defense of the Russian Federation, and Zhang Wannian, Vice Chairman of the Central Military Commission of the People's Republic of China (from left to right in the center in the background) after signing a general contract for training Chinese military personnel in higher educational institutions of the Russian Defense Ministry. Oleg Buldakov/TASS