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Putin awards Old Believers Metropolitan

February 25, 2013 Featured News

22/2/13 On Friday, Russia’s President Vladimir Putin awarded the head of the Church of Old Believers Metropolitan Cornelius with an Order of Friendship. The Old Believers is a Christian denomination, which separated from the Russian Orthodox Church in the 17th century. This is the first time ever that a head of the Russian state awards [...]

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Gerard Depardieu Hugs Vladimir Putin, Picks Up Russian Passport

January 10, 2013 News
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By Alexei Anishchuk – 10/1/2013 MOSCOW, Jan 6 (Reuters) – French film star Gerard Depardieu  received a hug from President Vladimir Putin and a new Russian  passport on Sunday after abandoning his homeland to avoid a new  tax rate for millionaires. Putin signed a decree on Thursday granting Russian  citizenship to Depardieu, who has fumed [...]

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Pussy Riot singer had staged anti-Semitic action, Putin tells Merkel

November 20, 2012 Featured News

Moscow, November 16, Interfax – President Vladimir Putin said that a singer of the Pussy Riot punk group had staged an anti-Semitic provocation before the punk group’s scandalous performance at the Christ the Savior Cathedral. “We do hear what our partners say. But do they hear what is going on being so far away? Mrs. [...]

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Russian Orthodox Church Has No Ambition For Power: Patriarch

September 30, 2012 News

9/28/2012 (RTTNews) – The head of the Russian Orthodox Church says that the Church has no ambition to acquire State powers as alleged by its critics who accuse the Church of hobnobbing with the State. The critics allege that the Church’s influence was evident in a draft bill that seeks to make hurting religious sentiments [...]

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Russian President and head of Palestinian National Authority open Russian Centre for Science and Culture in Bethlehem

June 29, 2012 News

On 26 June 2012, Russian President Vladimir Putin and head of the Palestinian National Authority, Mahmoud Abbas, took part in the opening of the Russian Centre for Science and Culture in Bethlehem, official site of the President reports. Attending the ceremony were Sergei Stepashin, chairman of the Imperial Orthodox Palestine Society, who accompanies Russian President [...]

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Syria’s Assad can count on support of Russian Orthodox Church

June 2, 2012 News

1/6/2012 THERE ARE many reasons for Russia to support Syria in the face of anger from Western nations outraged at the killings of civilians, including the two countries’ military relationship. But a promise made by President Vladimir Putin to the Russian Orthodox Church to protect Christians in the Middle East could be another factor in [...]

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Putin sworn in as Russia’s President‎

May 8, 2012 Featured News

Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia made supplicatory prayer service (​​Moleben) at the Annunciation Cathedral on the occasion of the inauguration President Vladimir Putin as the Russian President. May. 7, 2012 – Vladimir Putin has been sworn in as Russia’s president for a third term after four years as prime minister. …

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Sixty-Four Percent of Russians Trust Orthodox Church – Poll

May 5, 2012 News

04/05/2012 MOSCOW,(RIA Novosti) Russians have more trust in the Russian Orthodox Church in general than in its head Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia, according to a survey conducted by the Kremlin-backed pollster Public Opinion Foundation (FOM). The survey, the results of which were published on Friday, said 64 percent of Russians have confidence [...]

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Russians and Georgians brethren in religion – Georgian Patriarch

March 14, 2012 Featured News

14/3/2012 Georgian church leader congratulates Putin on election win. In a message to Russian President-elect Vladimir Putin, Patriarch of the Georgian Orthodox Church, Ilia II, congratulated him with election victory and told him that Georgia would never tolerate “tearing away” Abkhazia and South Ossetia. “I think that your huge experience will contribute to strengthening of [...]

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Georgia’s Patriarch congratulates Vladimir Putin on his election as President

March 14, 2012 News

N.Kirtzkhalia 13/3/2012 Catholicos-Patriarch of All Georgia Ilia II has congratulated Prime Minister Vladimir Putin on his victory in the presidential election. The Patriarchate of Georgia told Trend that Ilia II sent a congratulatory message to Putin. “Please accept my congratulations on your election as president. I think that your vast experience will contribute to peace [...]

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Third anniversary of the enthronement of Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia marked by Divine Liturgy at Church of Christ the Savior

February 3, 2012 Featured News

        2/2/2012 On February 1, 2012, the 3d anniversary of the enthronement of His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia, the Divine Liturgy was celebrated at the Church of Christ the Saviour. The Primate of the Russian Orthodox Church was assisted by Metropolitans Vladimir of St. Petersburg and Ladoga, Juvenaly [...]

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Vladimir Putin receives Virgin Mary ‘fertility’ relic as Russia fights abortion, population decline

October 28, 2011 News

BY MATTHEW CULLINAN HOFFMAN 26/10/2011 SAINT PETERSBURG, October 26, 2011 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin was personally present at a St. Petersburg airport on October 20 to receive an Orthodox relic of the Virgin Mary from Greek monks bringing it from the Vatoped Monastery on Mount Athos. The relic, which is believed to [...]

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Patriarch Kirill praises Putin for preventing Russia’s breakup

October 7, 2011 News

Moscow, October 7, Interfax – Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia has sent birthday greetings to Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, who turned 59 on Friday. “God has bestowed on you the gift of doing numerous responsible jobs, including as Russia’s president and prime minister. I testify that largely thanks to your efforts was a [...]

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Small Russian Orthodox Sect Considers Vladimir Putin a Saint

October 4, 2011 News

By: JOE JACKSON 4/10/2011 With his flagging poll ratings and uphill battle for re-election in 2012, President Obama could be forgiven for casting an envious eye at Vladimir Putin. Not only does the country’s former and soon-to-be again president remain popular after more than a decade in positions of power, it’s now been revealed that [...]

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Putin visits ancient Monastery

August 17, 2011 News

14/8/2011 On Sunday, the Orthodox Christian Church celebrates a holiday named “Procession of the Precious Wood of the Life-giving Cross”. This holiday originates from an ancient tradition in Constantinople to make a procession with a particle of the cross on which Jesus was crucified. It was believed that this ceremony saves the city from the [...]

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Putin Awarded

March 24, 2011 Featured News

24/3/2011 Russia’s PM Vladimir Putin was awarded on Wednesday the Serbian Orthodox Church’s highest distinction – the Order of St. Savva, which was handed him by Patriarch Irinej. Thousands of believers gathered inside and outside the country’s biggest cathedral in Belgrade where the ceremony was held welcomed the Russian Prime Minister. Earlier in the day [...]

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Putin says relations with Orthodox Church are Cordial

July 6, 2010 News

05.07.2010 USOVO (Moscow region), July 5 (Itar-Tass) – On Monday Prime Minister Vladimir Putin visited a new church compound of Christ the Saviour not Made by Hands situated in the settlement of Usovo in the west of Moscow. Patriarch of Moscow and all Russia Kirill and Metropolitan Juvenaly of Krutitsy and Kolomna had sanctified the [...]

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Russia to donate 2 mln. dollars for restoring Orthodox shrines in Kosovo

June 22, 2010 News

Moscow, June 21, Interfax – Russia decided to make a voluntarily target contribution to UNESCO for financing restoration works of Orthodox shrines in Kosovo. According to Vladimir Putin’s order posted at the official governmental website, 1 mln dollars will be transferred in 2010 and the other million – in 2011. Putin instructed the Foreign Ministry [...]

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