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<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/i><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/i><\/a>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\nOn November 19, 2015, the international conference on \u2018Prince Vladimir. Choice of Civilization\u2019 held its first plenary session at the assembly hall of the Ss Cyril and Methodius Institute of Post-Graduate Studies (CMI).<\/p>\n
Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, head of the Moscow Patriarchate\u2019s department for external church relations (DECR) and CMI rector, welcoming the participants, said that the session continued the work initiated at the conference the day before by the addresses made by His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia, Russia\u2019s State Duma Speaker and chairman of the Russian History Society S. Naryshkin and by President Vladimir Putin\u2019s message of greetings brought by Presidential Envoy for the Central Federal Okrug A. Beglov.<\/p>\n
Metropolitan Hilarion continued his address with reading a paper on \u2018The Significance of the Adoption of Christianity by Old Russia\u2019. He noted that for our contemporaries, Prince Vladimir is not only a historical personality and a saint venerated by the Church. He stressed that \u2018In the present era of imaginary and real divisions and confrontations experienced by historical Rus\u2019, his very image is deeply symbolic as he unites nations, cultures, states, local traditions, because the image of Saint Vladimir reminds us above all of his epoch-making deed \u2013 the Baptism of Rus\u2019.<\/p>\n
\u2018Vladimir\u2019s legacy is the factor of unity. Any attempt to appropriate this legacy or fragment it contradicts its very essence; for Prince Vladimir\u2019s principal legacy is the faith of Christ, whose light has shown forth in Rus\u2019. His Eminence pointed out that the way to overcoming divisions among today\u2019s hairs of Vladimir Equal-to-the-Apostles \u2013 Orthodox Christians in various countries under the canonical responsibility of the Russian Orthodox Church \u2013 lies through their address to the common single spiritual source \u2013 the event of the adoption of Christianity by Old Russia\u2019.<\/p>\n
Academician A. Chubaryan, director of the Russian Academy of Sciences\u2019 Institute of World History, spoke about the geopolitical results of Prince Vladimir\u2019s policy.<\/p>\n
A presentation on \u201cRus\u2019 under Vladimir Svyatoslavovich: Cultural Changes in the Archeological Perspective\u201d was made by Academician N. Makarov, director of the RAS Institute of Archeology.<\/p>\n
Commenting on this presentation, Metropolitan Hilarion noted, \u2018Artefacts of the time of Prince Vladimir is a treasure that should be preserved and studied through our common efforts. Among the exhibits of the recent exhibition held by the State Museum of History were coins of Prince Vladimir\u2019s time with his image. These artefacts, as well as those you have mentioned, help us to have a better idea of that time. They are unique and visible witnesses to what we are discussing and studying. So, I wish you success in your work. I would like to assure you that the Church closely follows both the excavations and studies of monuments discovered in them\u2019.<\/p>\n
Then the conference heard a paper on \u2018Rus after the Baptism: Things Borrowed and Her Own\u2019 presented by Dr. A. Nazarenko, PhD, RAS Institute of World History.<\/p>\n
Among the participants in the plenary session were Archimandrite Irenaeus (Steenberg), dean of the Ss Athanasius and Cyril of Alexandria Institute in San Francisco, Russian Church Outside Russia; Prof. Archpriest Vladislav Tsypin, PhD, Moscow Theological Academy; Archpriest Vladimir Shmaliy, CMI pro-rector for academic work, Archpriest Constantine Kostromin, head of the St Petersburg Theological Academy post-graduate course; Dr. B. Florya, RAS corresponding member, head of the RAS Institute of Slavic Studies\u2019 department of the medieval history; Mr. A. Levykin, director of the State Museum of History; and Mr. S. Kravets, head of the CMI chair of social sciences and director of the Church Research Center \u2018Orthodox Encyclopedia\u2019. The conference was also attended by CMI students and others.<\/p>\n
The international conference \u2018Prince Vladimir. Choice of Civilization\u2019 will last till November 20.<\/p>\n
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