The opening ceremony was attended by Head of the Belarus President Administration Igor Sergeyenko, Director of the National History Museum Aleksandr Khramoi, Belarusian President's Spiritual Revival award laureate Vladimir Likhodedov and the staff of the Belarus President Administration.
Opening the event, Belarusian Information Minister Vladimir Pertsov said that Belarusian-Russian cooperation in book publishing had a long tradition and was successfully developing. In his words, this year Russia was an guest of honor at the Minsk International Book Fair, and now the same honorary status was given to Belarus in Moscow.