OREANDA-NEWS. May 24, 2012. Vladimir Putin congratulated the Patriarch of his Name Day, Ascension Day and the Day of Slavic Written Language. The President presented the icon of the Ascension as a gift to the head of the Russian Orthodox Church.

After that, Vladimir Putin and Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia met with Archbishop Hieronymus II of Athens and all Greece, who is paying a visit to Russia.