Kabul Official said Hamid Karzai will travel to Russia on January 20 and stay for two days.

Afghan President is due to pay a visit to Russia this week to discuss bilateral relation between the two former foes.

An Afghan official told AFP news agency on condition of anonymity that Hamid Karzai will travel to Russia on January 20 and stay for two days.
The foreign ministry in Kabul said that Russian president Dmitry Medvedev has invited Karzai to visit Moscow.

The Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan in 1979, sparking a bloody Afghan resistance that cost hundreds of thousands of lives but eventually forced the Soviet army to withdraw 10 years later.
But relations between Kabul and Moscow have developed since the US-led invasion of Afghanistan in 2001 and the subsequent installation of the Western-backed Karzai as president.

In November, Moscow and NATO struck a deal to boost the flow of Western military supply shipments through Russia to Afghanistan.
There are about 140,000 NATO-led occupation troops in Afghanistan, around two-thirds of which are from the United States.