Department for External Church Relations
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Metropolitan Vladimir of Kiev and All Ukraine received Russian Foreign Ministry decoration "For Contribution to International Cooperation"
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On 9 April 2010, His Beatitude Metropolitan Vladimir of Kiev and All Ukraine met with the Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov. The meeting took place at the residence of the Primate of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church in the Laura of the Caves in Kiev, official site of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church reported on April 11.
Minister Lavrov presented Metropolitan Vladimir with the Russian Foreign Ministry decoration "For Contribution to International Cooperation." His Beatitude presented Minister Lavrov with a painted Easter egg and a book "Prayer for Victory" narrating the life of the Orthodox Church during the Great Patriotic war.
Minister Lavrov laid flowers at the tomb of a renowned Russian diplomat Ye. Putyatin buried at the monastic cemetery near the Church of the Nativity of the Most Holy Mother of God in the Laura of the Caves in Kiev.
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