Berl Lazar, chief rabbi of Russia, attending the joint meeting of the Russian State Council presidium and the Council for Cooperation with Religious Organizations.

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Bishop Ezras, head of the New-Nakhichevan and Russian eparchy of the Armenian Apostolic Church, attending the joint meeting of the Russian State Council presidium and the Council for Cooperation with Religious Organizations

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Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia Kirill attending the joint meeting of the Russian State Council presidium and the Council for Cooperation with Religious Organizations.

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Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia Kirill attending the joint meeting of the Russian State Council presidium and the Council for Cooperation with Religious Organizations.

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President Dmitry Medvedev attending the joint meeting of the Russian State Council presidium and the Council for Cooperation with Religious Organizations.

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Chief Rabbi of Russia Berl Lazar, left, and Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia at a joint session of the State Council Presidium and the Presidential Council on Cooperation with Religious Associations in Tula.

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Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia at a joint session of the State Council Presidium and the Presidential Council on Cooperation with Religious Associations in Tula.

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Metropolitan Juvenaly of Krutitsy and Kolomna, left, and Metropolitan Kornily of Moscow and All Russia of the Old Rite Russian Orthodox Church at a joint session of the State Council Presidium and the Presidential Council on Cooperation with Religious Associations in Tula.

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Head of Novo-Nakhichevan and Russian Episcopate of the Armenian Apostolic Church Bishop Ezras, left, and Russia's Chief Rabbi Berl Lazar at a joint session of the State Council Presidium and the Presidential Council on Cooperation with Religious Associations in Tula.

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Chairman of the Council of Muftis of Russia, Mufti Sheikh Ravil Gainutdin,left, and Chairman of the Central Muslim Board of Russia, Supreme Mufti, Sheikh ul-Islam Talgat Tajuddin, at a joint session of the State Council Presidium and the Presidential Council on Cooperation with Religious Associations in Tula.

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President Dmitry Medvedev, right, and Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia before a joint session of the State Council Presidium and the Presidential Council on Cooperation with Religious Associations.

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President Dmitry Medvedev at a joint session of the State Council Presidium and the Presidential Council on Cooperation with Religious Associations.

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March 11, 2009. President Dmitry Medvedev at a joint meeting of the State Council Presidium and the Council on Cooperation with Religious Associations.

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March 11, 2009. President Dmitry Medvedev, right, and Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia at a joint session of the State Council Presidium and the Presidential Council on Cooperation with Religious Associations.

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March 11, 2009. President Dmitry Medvedev at a joint meeting of the State Council Presidium and the Council on Cooperation with Religious Associations.

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From left to right: Chairman of the Council of Muftis of Russia, Mufti Sheikh Ravil Gainutdin, and Chairman of the Central Muslim Board of Russia, Supreme Mufti, Sheikh ul-Islam Talgat Tajuddin,Chairman of the North Caucasus Muslim Coordinating Center Ismail Berdiyev, and of North Caucasus, and Head of the Russian Union of Evangelical Christians Bishop Alexander Semchenko at a joint session of the State Council Presidium and the Presidential Council on Cooperation with Religious Associations in Tula.

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Senior Pastor and President of the Seventh Day Adventists West-Russian Union Vasily Stolyar, left, Head of Novo-Nakhichevan and Russian Episcopate of the Armenian Apostolic Church Ezras, center, and Chief Rabbi of Russia Berl Lazar at a a joint session of the State Council Presidium and the Presidential Council on Cooperation with Religious Associations in Tula.

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Representative of Russia's Buddhist Traditional Sangkha Sanjei Lama Andrei Balzhirov, left, Archbishop Yevgeny of Vereya, center, and Head of Russia’s Pentecostal Union Bishop Sergei Ryakhovsky at a joint session of the State Council Presidium and the Presidential Council on Cooperation with Religious Associations in Tula.

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March 11, 2009. President Dmitry Medvedev, center, at a joint session of the State Council Presidium and the Presidential Council on Cooperation with Religious Associations in Tula. From left to right: Russia's Chief Rabbi Berl Lazar, Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia. Head of the Presidential Administration Sergei Naryshkin is on the left.

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March 11, 2009. President Dmitry Medvedev, right, and Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia at a joint session of the State Council Presidium and the Presidential Council on Cooperation with Religious Associations.

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From left to right: Head of the Presidential Administration Sergei Naryshkin, Presidential Aide Alexander Abramov, Chairman of the Council of Muftis of Russia, Mufti Sheikh Ravil Gainutdin, and Chairman of the Central Muslim Board of Russia, Supreme Mufti, Sheikh ul-Islam Talgat Tajuddin at a joint session of the State Council Presidium and the Presidential Council on Cooperation with Religious Associations in Tula.

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Russia's Chief Rabbi Berl Lazar, left, and Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia at a joint session of the State Council Presidium and the Presidential Council on Cooperation with Religious Associations in Tula.

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March 11, 2009. President Dmitry Medvedev, center, conducted a joint session of the State Council Presidium and the Presidential Council on Cooperation with Religious Associations in Tula. From left to right: Head of the Novo-Nakhichevan and Russian Eparchy of the Armenian Apostolic Church Ezras Nersisyan, Russia's Chief Rabbi Berl Lazar, and Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia. From right to left:Chairman of the Council of Muftis of Russia Ravil Gainutdin, Presidential Aide Alexander Abramov, and Head of the Presidential Administration Sergei Naryshkin.

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March 11, 2009. President Dmitry Medvedev, left, meeting Tula Region Governor Vyacheslav Dudka.

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March 11, 2009. Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, left, meeting with members of the Iskatel [Seeker] youth archeological detachment at the Tula State Weapons Museum.

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March 11, 2009. President Dmitry Medvedev, left, meeting with the members of the Iskatel youth search party in the Tula State Museum of Arms.

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March 11, 2009. President Dmitry Medvedev, center, visiting the Tula Kremlin, a unique monument of Russian architecture of the 16th century. Tula Region Governor Vyacheslav Dudka is on the left.

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March 11, 2009. President Dmitry Medvedev visiting the Tula State Museum of Arms on the territory of the Tula Kremlin.

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March 11, 2009. President Dmitry Medvedevm center, visiting the Tula State Museum of Arms on the territory of the Tula Kremlin. Tula Region Governor Vyacheslav Dudka is on the left.

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March 11, 2009. President Dmitry Medvedev, in the foreground, visiting the Tula State Museum of Arms on the territory of the Tula Kremlin. Tula Region Governor Vyacheslav Dudka is in the background.

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March 11, 2009. President Dmitry Medvedev visiting the Tula State Museum of Arms on the territory of the Tula Kremlin.

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March 11, 2009. President Dmitry Medvedev visiting the Tula State Museum of Arms on the territory of the Tula Kremlin.

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March 11, 2009. President Dmitry Medvedev visiting the Tula State Museum of Arms on the territory of the Tula Kremlin. Tula Region Governor Vyacheslav Dudka is on the left.

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March 11, 2009. President Dmitry Medvedev visiting the Tula State Museum of Arms on the territory of the Tula Kremlin. Tula Region Governor Vyacheslav Dudka is on the left.

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March 11, 2009. President Dmitry Medvedev, center, visiting the Tula Kremlin, a unique monument of Russian architecture of the 16th century. Tula Region Governor Vyacheslav Dudka is on the left.

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March 11, 2009. President Dmitry Medvedev, right, meeting with the recently elected deputies of the Tula Region's municipal legislatures in the House of Science and Technology. Teacher and founder of the Plekhanov secondary school Svetlana Shonicheva is on the left, and CEO of the Utilities Managing Company Andrei Stukalov is in the center.

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March 11, 2009. President Dmitry Medvedev, right, meeting with the recently elected deputies of the Tula Region's municipal legislatures in the House of Science and Technology. Teacher and founder of the Plekhanov secondary school Svetlana Shonicheva is on the left, and CEO of the Utilities Managing Company Andrei Stukalov is in the center.

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March 11, 2009. President Dmitry Medvedev, center in the background, meeting with the recently elected deputies of the Tula Region's municipal legislatures in the House of Science and Technology.

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March 11, 2009. President Dmitry Medvedev, right, meeting with the recently elected deputies of Tula Region's municipal legislatures in the House of Science and Technology. CEO of the Utilities Managing Company Andrei Stukalov is on the left.

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March 11, 2009. President Dmitry Medvedev meeting with the recently elected deputies of the Tula Region's municipal legislatures in the House of Science and Technology. Deputy Director of the Rassvet Secondary School Svetlana Avdeyeva is on the right.

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March 11, 2009. President Dmitry Medvedev meeting with the recently elected deputies of the Tula Region's municipal legislatures in the House of Science and Technology.

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March 11, 2009. President Dmitry Medvedev, left, visited a grocery store in Tula. Tula Region Governor Vyacheslav Dudka is on the left.

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March 11, 2009. President Dmitry Medvedev, left, visiting a Tula supermarket. Right: Governor of the Tula Region Vyacheslav Dudka.

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