Patriarch Alexy receives leaders of the Moscow Chamber of Commerce and Industry

On 16 January 2006, the Primate of the Russian Orthodox Church met with the President of the Moscow Chamber of Commerce and Industry (MCCI) L. Govorov and the MCCI president Y. Kotov.

The participants discussed questions connected with the MCCI honorary award ‘Gift of Ivan Kalita’. The annual awards ceremony is held under the auspices of His Holiness the Patriarch. Laureate is presented with a silver statuette of Ioann Danilovich Kalita with a purse in his hands as a symbol of charity.

His Holiness Patriarch Alexy II of Moscow and All Russia has become the first laureate of the award established 5 years ago. Ten people have been awarded with the ‘Gift of Ivan Kalita’ ever since.

The awards ceremony of the Moscow Chamber of Commerce and Industry will take place in March.