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Published by Stetson University Russia Religion News, May 7 & 9, 2004

Visible presence of religion at Putin's inauguration

HEADS AND REPRESENTATIVES OF A NUMBER OF RELIGIOUS CONFESSIONS OF RUSSIA PRESENT AT PRESIDENTIAL INAUGURATION.

(Portal-credo.ru, 7 May 2004) - Patriarch Alexis II of Moscow and all-Rus, Old Believer Metropolitan Andrian of Moscow and all-Rus, the head of Russian Catholics, Metropolitan Tadeusz Kondrusiewicz, the chief rabbi of Russia for FEOR, Berl Lazar, the head of the Central Ecclesiastical Board of Muslims of Russia, Supreme Mufti Talgat Tajuddin, and the chairman of the Ecclesiastical Board of Muslims of the European Part of Russia, Mufti Ravil Gainutdin, as well as the head of the Traditional Buddhist Sangkha of Russia Pandito-Khambo-Lama Damba Aiusheev, the president of the Russian Associated Union of Christians of Evangelical Faith Sergei Riakhovsky and several other protestant leaders were present on 7 May in the St. Andrew's Hall of the Grand Kremlin Palace for the ceremony of inauguration of the president of the Russian federation, Vladimir Putin. This was reported by a correspondent of Portal-Credo.ru.

Among the religious figures in St. Andrew's Hall also was a group of senior hierarchs of RPTsMP, Metropolitan of Krutitsy and Kolomna Yuvenaly, Metropolitan of Smolensk and Kaliningrad Kiril, Metropolitan of Voronezh and Borisoglebsk Sergius, and Metropolitan of Kaluga and Borovsky Kliment. The patriarch was located separate from the group of hierarchs, alongside the wife of the first president of Russia, Naina Yeltsina, and deputy premier of the government of Russia Alexander Zhukov.

A tribune on which were laid the constitution of RF and the symbol of the presidency, and where Vladimir Putin took the oath for assuming the office of president exactly at noon, was arranged under a bas relief of the 18th century "Unsleeping Eye," symbolizing the Holy Trinity. As in the year 2000, when Vladimir Putin took the office of president for the first time, participants in the ceremony forgot to place on him the presidential symbol, a chain with the coat of arms of the Russian federation.

After a military parade, which Vladimir Putin received on Cathedral Square of the Kremlin, he entered one of the Kremlin cathedrals to the tolling of the Kremlin bells.  (tr. by PDS, posted 7 May 2004)

PUTIN MEETS PATRIARCH AFTER INAUGURATION
 (Religiia i SMI, 7 May 2004) - According to a report from the Interfax news agency, "the inauguration events were capped by a meeting of V. Putin with Patriarch Alexis II of Moscow and all-Rus in Annunciation cathedral of the Moscow Kremlin." (tr. by PDS, posted 9 May 2004)

PATRIARCH ALEXIS PERFORMS PRAYER SERVICE IN HONOR OF INAUGURATION
 (Religiia i SMI, 7 May 2004) - RIA Novosti reports "Patriarch Alexis II of Moscow and all-Rus conducted a brief prayer service in honor of the second inauguration of the president of Russia." (tr. by PDS, posted 9 May 2004)
 

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