December 12, 2013. Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia, center, during President Vladimir Putin's annual address to the Federal Assembly in the St. George's Hall of the Kremlin. From left: Chief of Staff of the Presidential Executive Office Sergei Ivanov, Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev and State Duma Speaker Sergei Naryshkin. From right: Vladimir Vasilyev, State Duma Deputy Speaker and leader of the United Russia parliamentary party, State Duma First Deputy Speaker Ivan Melnikov and State Duma First Deputy Speaker Alexander Zhukov.
