On the eve of Victory Day, Russian President Vladimir Putin congratulated Lazar Matveyev, former KGB representative at the Ministry of State Security in the GDR, on his ninetieth birthday. Under his leadership in the second half of the 1980s, Vladimir Putin worked in Dresden. This is reported on the official website of the Kremlin.
Together with the president to visit the veteran of special services living in the capital Zhulebino district, the head of Transneft Nikolay Tokarev and the head of Rosteha Sergey Chemezov arrived.
The first toast for the health of the jubilee was delivered by Vladimir Putin. The birthday party was presented with a presidential watch and a copy of the newspaper Pravda, released on Lazar Matveyev's birthday in 1927.