“The meeting is planned,” RIA Novosti quoted the press secretary of Russian leader Dmitry Peskov as saying.

Earlier it was reported that Dodon arrived on a one-day working visit to Moscow to meet with Russian Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Kozak and Gazprom head Alexei Miller.

Also, Secretary of the Security Council of Russia Nikolai Patrushev met in Moscow with his new Moldovan counterpart Viktor Gaychuk.