Hieromonk Stefan (Igumnov), head of a delegation of the Interreligious Working Group of the Russian Presidential Council for Cooperation with Religious Associations, secretary for inter-Christian relations of the Moscow Patriarchate's Department for External Church Relations, fifth on the right in the background, during an Interfaith Round Table in Syria in Damascus, Syria, where Russian and Syrian religious leaders discussed humanitarian projects.03.02.2018#3287006
From left in the background: Sergei Baidakov, head of the Moscow office of the Emperor Orthodox Palestinian Society; Archimandrite Pogos Vardyan, vicar to the head of the New Nakhichevan Diocese of the Armenian Apostolic Church; Sergei Ryakhovsky, senior bishop of the Russian Union of Christians of Evangelical Faith (Pentecostals); Imam-Muhtasib Ildar Ziganshin of the Tyumen region; Imam-Muhtasib Ildar Ziganshin of the Tyumen region, Hieromonk Stefan (Igumnov), head of a delegation of the Interreligious Working Group of the Russian Presidential Council for Cooperation with Religious Associations, secretary for inter-Christian relations of the Moscow Patriarchate's Department for External Church Relations, Albir Krganov, chairman of the Muslim Spiritual Administration of Russia, Sergei Melnikov, assistant at the Russian Presidential Domestic Policy Directorate, executive secretary of the Russian Presidential Council for Cooperation with Religious Associations, and Akhmad Kakhayev, First Deputy Chairman of the Muslim Spiritual Administration of Dagestan, during an Interfaith Round Table in Syria in Damascus, Syria.03.02.2018#3287023
From left: Hieromonk Stefan (Igumnov), head of a delegation of the Interreligious Working Group of the Russian Presidential Council for Cooperation with Religious Associations, secretary for inter-Christian relations of the Moscow Patriarchate's Department for External Church Relations, left, and participants of an Interfaith Round Table in Syria before the meeting in Damascus, Syria.03.02.2018#3287034
From left: Hieromonk Stefan (Igumnov), head of a delegation of the Interreligious Working Group of the Russian Presidential Council for Cooperation with Religious Associations, secretary for inter-Christian relations of the Moscow Patriarchate's Department for External Church Relations, and Mohammad Abdul-Sattar al-Sayyed, Syrian minister of Awqaf and head of the Syrian delegation of the Interreligious Working Group, during an Interfaith Round Table in Syria in Damascus, Syria.03.02.2018#3287015
The armed conflict in Yugoslavia. The Bosnian War of 1992-1995. A cemetery with the graves of conflict victims in Sarajevo.10.06.1993#6404861
Vladimir Gudkov, Chairman of the Initiative Committee on creating the Association of Friends of Yugoslavia, Head of the Department of Slavic Linguistics at Moscow State University.21.10.1991#6692901
Nikolai Maslennikov, member of the Initiative Committee on Creating the Association of Friends of Yugoslavia.21.10.1991#6692899
Vladimir Gudkov, Chair, Advocacy Committee for Establishing the Association of Friends of Yugoslavia, Head, Slavic Philology Faculty, Lomonosov Moscow State University01.04.1991#8192008
Nikolai Maslennikov, a member of the Public Committee to Establish the Friends of Yugoslavia Association.01.04.1991#8192005
Moscow. Returning the holy relics of St. Seraphim of Sarov to the Russian Orthodox Church. Photo: Carrying the holy relics toward the Theophany Cathedral in an impressive setting.07.02.1991#8193031
Republic of Afghanistan (Islamic Republic of Afghanistan). Participants in the international conference, Muslims for Peace and Security and for Survival of the Humanity, in Kabul.01.05.1989#6752860
A delegation of Kampuchean Buddhists visits the Soviet Union. Buddhists from Kampuchea visit the Khabarovsk Local History Museum (now Khabarovsk Territory Local History Museum, or Grodekov Museum).18.12.1988#6644186
A delegation of Kampuchean Buddhists visits the Soviet Union. Buddhists from Kampuchea at the international peacemaking forum, For Peace and Security in the Asia-Pacific Region.18.12.1988#6644185
A delegation of Kampuchean Buddhists visits the Soviet Union. Buddhists from Kampuchea at the international peacemaking forum, For Peace and Security in the Asia-Pacific Region.18.12.1988#6644184
Maronite Catholic patriarch of Antioch and all the East Nasrallah Boutros Sfeir visits the USSR. Nasrallah Boutros Sfeir, left, and Metropolitan Filaret (Denisenko) at St. Daniel Monastery.21.09.1987#5980653
Maronite Catholic patriarch of Antioch and all the East Nasrallah Boutros Sfeir visits the USSR. Nasrallah Boutros Sfeir, pays a visit to the Trinity Lavra of St. Serguis.21.09.1987#5980652
Maronite Catholic patriarch of Antioch and all the East Nasrallah Boutros Sfeir visits the USSR. Nasrallah Boutros Sfeir, center, attends a mass at the Dormition Cathedral of the Trinity Lavra of St. Serguis. The mass was conducted by Patriarch Pimen of Moscow and All Russia.21.09.1987#5980651
Maronite Catholic patriarch of Antioch and all the East Nasrallah Boutros Sfeir visits the USSR. Nasrallah Boutros Sfeir, center, during a tour of the Trinity Lavra of St. Serguis.21.09.1987#5980650
Maronite Catholic patriarch of Antioch and all the East Nasrallah Boutros Sfeir visits the USSR. Nasrallah Boutros Sfeir, left, during a conversation with Metropolitan Filaret of Minsk, chairman of the department of external church relations at the Moscow Patriarchy.21.09.1987#5980649
The International Forum for a Nuclear-Free World and the Survival of Mankind, Moscow, February 14-16, 1987. From right: Syed Asrarul Haque, president of the All-Indian Committee of National Unity, speaks to Talgat Tadzhuddin, chairman of the Spiritual Muslim Directorate of the European Part of the USSR and Siberia (now Central Spiritual Administration of the Muslims of Russia).14.02.1987#8455822
Delegates of USA-USSR: Peace Bridges, an American Christian association, visits the Soviet Union. Members of the delegation hand over a message from peace supporters to a Russian priest.15.12.1983#8296343
An Indian parliamentary delegation visits Uzbekistan. Speaker of the People's Chamber of India Bali Ram Bhagat, third from right, and Chair of the Spiritual Administration of Muslims of Central Asia and Kazakhstan Mufti Ziyauddinhan ibn Eshon Babakhan (near him on the left) visiting the library of the Spiritual Administration in Tashkent, Uzbek SSR.27.04.1976#6747772
Members of a delegation of Laos Buddhists visit the Soviet Union. Here they are taking a guided tour of Senate Square in Leningrad. the monument to Peter the Great, built to a design by sculptor Etienne Maurice Falconet is in the background.01.07.1969#6116515
Members of a delegation of Laos Buddhists visit the Soviet Union. Here they are taking a guided tour of St. Nicholas Naval Cathedral in Leningrad.01.07.1969#6116513
A delegation of Laos Buddhists visits the USSR. The Laos Buddhists on a tour around Leningrad, seeing the Peter and Paul Fortress on Zayachy Island.01.07.1969#6116511
The Buryat ASSR. Photo: Members of a delegation of Laos Buddhists meet with Head of the Central Spiritual Board of Soviet Buddhists Pandito Hambo-Lama XIX Dorji Gomboyev, second right, at Ivolginsky Datsan / Temple.13.06.1969#6163505
The Buryat ASSR. Photo: Members of a delegation of Laos Buddhists with monks of Ivolginsky Datsan / Temple.13.06.1969#6163503
Representatives of the Malankara Orthodox Syrian Church visit the Soviet Union and meet with the Soviet side at the House of Friendship with Foreign Nations, now the Russian Government's Receptions House. From left: Professor Alexei Dyakov, Metropolitan Mar Timotios, Bishop of Vienna and Austria Melchizedek (Vasily Lebedev) and Head of the Indian Delegation Metropolitan Mar Sivernos.08.08.1967#6129968
