June 20, 2017. Alexander Shchipkov, Russian religious scientist, political scientist, First Deputy Chairman of the Synod Department for Relations between the Church, Society and the Media, left, and Vladimir Legoida, Chairman of the Synod Department for Relations between the Church, Society and the Media, Chairman of the Commission on Inter-Ethnic and Inter-Faith Relations of the Presidential Council for Coordination with Religious Organisations, at President Vladimir Putin's meeting with the sixth convocation of the Civic Chamber.