**time-out** NIGERIA PRESIDENT TO ATTENDANCE IN MOSCOW ARRIVE









MOSCOW, 5 March.  / Korr. of the RIA " Nowosti " /. Olusegun Obasanjo,
president of Nigeria, arrived to a three-day-long state visit in
Moscow.  The attendance is abgestattet on invitation of the president
of Russia Vladimir Putin.  That is the first attendance of the
president of Nigeria in Russia.

In the airport the high guest was welcomed by vice-Prime Minister Ilja
Klebanow as well as the Ambassadors of African countries accredited in
Moscow.

In the evening Olusegun Obasanjo the ballet performance " the swan
lake " in the Muscovite academic Stanislawski and Nemirowitsch
Dantschenko theatre will visit.

The official part of the attendance of the Nigerian head of state
begins on Tuesday.

Olusegun Obasanjo was selected to the president of Nigeria 1999 with
the first democratic elections in the country.