Queen of Denmark to visit Russia at invitation of Medvedev

According to Itar-Tass, this will be her second visit 36 years after the first trip to Russia.

Medvedev will meet with Margrethe II on Tuesday, September 6. On Wednesday, September 7, Dmitry and Sevtlana Medvedevs, Queen Margrethe II and Prince Consort Henrik will attend the opening ceremony at the Danish-Russian photo exhibition "Arctic" at the Moscow House of Photography.

Queen Margrethe II was in Moscow in Soviet times, in 1975. She met Medvedev in April 2010 when he was in Denmark on a state visit.

This time the queen will be accompanied by her husband, Prince Consort Henrik, and their son, Crown Prince Frederik.

The queen is scheduled to meet with Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, as well as Federation Council and State Duma leaders. Members of the royal family will visit several big Danish companies in Moscow and St. Petersburg.

The queen said earlier she hoped that her upcoming state visit to Russia in September would "give an impetus" to trade and economic cooperation between the two countries.

The queen met with a group of Russian journalists at her summer residence in Grasten, South Denmark, ahead of her visit to Moscow.

Prince Consort Henrik, who also attended the meeting, stressed that the Danish queen would be accompanied by "the biggest delegation of businessmen in the history of her state visits" of which she has made about 40.

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