From left, foreground: Russian State Duma Speaker Sergei Naryshkin, Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia and Chairman of the Russian Union of Writers Valery Ganichev at the opening of the 18th World Russian People's Council under the theme "The Unity of History, People and Russia." The event took place in the Church Assembly Hall of the Cathedral of Christ the Savior, Moscow.

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Participants in the 18th World Russian People's Council under the theme "The Unity of History, People and Russia." The event took place in the Church Assembly Hall of the Cathedral of Christ the Savior, Moscow.

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Russian Interior Minister Vladimir Kolokoltsev at the opening of the 18th World Russian People's Council under the theme "The Unity of History, People and Russia." The event took place in the Church Assembly Hall of the Cathedral of Christ the Savior, Moscow.

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Russian Interior Minister Vladimir Kolokoltsev and Metropolitan Yuvenaly of Krutitsy and Kolomna at the opening of the 18th World Russian People's Council under the theme "The Unity of History, People and Russia." The event took place in the Church Assembly Hall of the Cathedral of Christ the Savior, Moscow.

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From left: Russian Interior Minister Vladmir Kolokoltsev, First Deputy Speaker of the Federation Council Alexander Torshin and Metropolitan Yuvenaly of Krutitsy and Kolomna at the opening of the 18th World Russian People's Council under the theme "The Unity of History, People and Russia." The event took place in the Church Assembly Hall of the Cathedral of Christ the Savior, Moscow.

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Russian State Duma Speaker Sergei Naryshkin, left, and Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia at the opening of the 18th World Russian People's Council under the theme "The Unity of History, People and Russia." The event took place in the Church Assembly Hall of the Cathedral of Christ the Savior, Moscow.

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Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia, center, and Chairman of the Russian Union of Writers Valery Ganichev, right, at the opening of the 18th World Russian People's Council under the theme "The Unity of History, People and Russia." The event took place in the Church Assembly Hall of the Cathedral of Christ the Savior, Moscow.

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Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia and Chairman of the Russian Union of Writers Valery Ganichev at the opening of the 18th World Russian People's Council under the theme "The Unity of History, People and Russia." The event took place in the Church Assembly Hall of the Cathedral of Christ the Savior, Moscow.

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Russian State Duma Speaker Sergei Naryshkin, right, and Russian Presidential Envoy to the Central Federal District Alexander Beglov at the opening of the 18th World Russian People's Council under the theme "The Unity of History, People and Russia." The event took place in the Church Assembly Hall of the Cathedral of Christ the Savior, Moscow.

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Talgat Tadzhutdin, right, Russia's Chief Mufti and Chairman of the Central Muslim Spiritual Board of Russia, at the opening of the 18th World Russian People's Council under the theme "The Unity of History, People and Russia." The event took place in the Church Assembly Hall of the Cathedral of Christ the Savior, Moscow.

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Russian State Duma Deputy Speaker Sergei Zheleznyak, left, at the opening of the 18th World Russian People's Council under the theme "The Unity of History, People and Russia." The event took place in the Church Assembly Hall of the Cathedral of Christ the Savior, Moscow.

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A Just Russia party leader Sergei Mironov, left, at the opening of the 18th World Russian People's Council under the theme "The Unity of History, People and Russia." The event took place in the Church Assembly Hall of the Cathedral of Christ the Savior, Moscow.

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Talgat Tadzhutdin, Russia's Chief Mufti and Chairman of the Central Muslim Spiritual Board of Russia, at the opening of the 18th World Russian People's Council under the theme "The Unity of History, People and Russia." The event took place in the Church Assembly Hall of the Cathedral of Christ the Savior, Moscow.

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Rabbi Zinovy Kogan, vice-president of the Congress of Jewish Religious Communities and Organizations in Russia, at the opening of the 18th World Russian People's Council under the theme "The Unity of History, People and Russia." The event took place in the Church Assembly Hall of the Cathedral of Christ the Savior, Moscow.

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Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia at the opening of the 18th World Russian People's Council under the theme "The Unity of History, People and Russia." The event took place in the Church Assembly Hall of the Cathedral of Christ the Savior, Moscow.

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Russian Interior Minister Vladimir Kolokoltsev at the opening of the 18th World Russian People's Council under the theme "The Unity of History, People and Russia." The event took place in the Church Assembly Hall of the Cathedral of Christ the Savior, Moscow.

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Russian Prosecutor-General Yury Chaika at the opening of the 18th World Russian People's Council under the theme "The Unity of History, People and Russia." The event took place in the Church Assembly Hall of the Cathedral of Christ the Savior, Moscow.

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Sergei Glazyev, Russian Presidential Adviser for Regional Economic Integration, at the opening of the 18th World Russian People's Council under the theme "The Unity of History, People and Russia." The event took place in the Church Assembly Hall of the Cathedral of Christ the Savior, Moscow.

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Russian Communist Party leader Gennady Zyuganov at the opening of the 18th World Russian People's Council under the theme "The Unity of History, People and Russia." The event took place in the Church Assembly Hall of the Cathedral of Christ the Savior, Moscow.

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Participants in the 18th World Russian People's Council under the theme "The Unity of History, People and Russia." The event took place in the Church Assembly Hall of the Cathedral of Christ the Savior, Moscow.

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Participants in the 18th World Russian People's Council under the theme "The Unity of History, People and Russia." The event took place in the Church Assembly Hall of the Cathedral of Christ the Savior, Moscow. Third right: Chief Mufti of Moscow and Central Russia, Albir Krganov.

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The opening of the 18th World Russian People's Council under the theme "The Unity of History, People and Russia." The event took place in the Church Assembly Hall of the Cathedral of Christ the Savior, Moscow.

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Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia at the opening of the 18th World Russian People's Council under the theme "The Unity of History, People and Russia." The event took place in the Church Assembly Hall of the Cathedral of Christ the Savior, Moscow.

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Participants in the 18th World Russian People's Council under the theme "The Unity of History, People and Russia." The event took place in the Church Assembly Hall of the Cathedral of Christ the Savior, Moscow.

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Participants in the 18th World Russian People's Council under the theme "The Unity of History, People and Russia." The event took place in the Church Assembly Hall of the Cathedral of Christ the Savior, Moscow.

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Participants in the 18th World Russian People's Council under the theme "The Unity of History, People and Russia." The event took place in the Church Assembly Hall of the Cathedral of Christ the Savior, Moscow.

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Chairman of the Russian Union of Writers Valery Ganichev at the opening of the 18th World Russian People's Council under the theme "The Unity of History, People and Russia." The event took place in the Church Assembly Hall of the Cathedral of Christ the Savior, Moscow.

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Russian State Duma Speaker Sergei Naryshkin at the opening of the 18th World Russian People's Council under the theme "The Unity of History, People and Russia." The event took place in the Church Assembly Hall of the Cathedral of Christ the Savior, Moscow.

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Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia at the opening of the 18th World Russian People's Council under the theme "The Unity of History, People and Russia." The event took place in the Church Assembly Hall of the Cathedral of Christ the Savior, Moscow.

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Russian Liberal-Democratic Party leader Vladimir Zhirinovsky at the opening of the 18th World Russian People's Council under the theme "The Unity of History, People and Russia." The event took place in the Church Assembly Hall of the Cathedral of Christ the Savior, Moscow.

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Sergei Glazyev, Russian Presidential Adviser for Regional Economic Integration, at the opening of the 18th World Russian People's Council under the theme "The Unity of History, People and Russia." The event took place in the Church Assembly Hall of the Cathedral of Christ the Savior, Moscow.

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Rabbi Zinovy Kogan, right, vice-president of the Congress of Jewish Religious Communities and Organizations in Russia, at the opening of the 18th World Russian People's Council under the theme "The Unity of History, People and Russia." The event took place in the Church Assembly Hall of the Cathedral of Christ the Savior, Moscow.

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Russian Communist Party leader Gennady Zyuganov at the opening of the 18th World Russian People's Council under the theme "The Unity of History, People and Russia." The event took place in the Church Assembly Hall of the Cathedral of Christ the Savior, Moscow.

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