On December 1, 2016, President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin delivered his annual address to the Federal Assembly at the St. George Hall of the Grand Kremlin Palace.
Present at the event was His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia.
Among those who assembled at the hall were also Metropolitan Juvenaly of Krutitsy and Kolomna; Metropolitan Varsonofy of St. Petersburg and Ladoga, chancellor of the Moscow Patriarchate; Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, head of the Moscow Patriarchate department for external church relations (DECR), and Mr. V. Legoida, head of the synodal department for the Church’s relations with society and mass media.
Patriarchal Press Service
Memorial house of romanian elder Sofian Boghiu Consecrated in his native Village 
On the 14th Sunday after Pentecost, His Eminence Metropolitan Vladimir celebrated the Divine Liturgy in the St. Nicolas Monastery, Dobrusa village, Soldanesti region 
Inauguration of the volume of articles presented at the National Scientific Conference “The Orthodox Church and the State: Faith and Knowledge” 
The 12th Sunday after Pentecost – kindness in God changes the world we live in 
The 11th Sunday after Pentecost – loving our God and our neighbor 
The Transfiguration of the Lord, celebrated in the Nativity of the Lord Cathedral in Chisinau 
His Eminence Metropolitan Vladimir celebrates 65th anniversary 
Divine Service at the St. Theodore of Tyre Monastery (Ciuflea) in Chisinau, and congratulation of Archimandrite Nicolae (Rosca), the Monastery’s confessor-administrator, on the 50th anniversary. 
The Tenth Sunday after Pentecost: Divine Liturgy in the Nativity of the Lord Cathedral in Chisinau 
