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Michael Misoustin left Thessaloniki

The prime minister’s plane, which was transporting to Moscow, departed from “Macedonia” airport for Moscow earlier. Michael Misustin.

The Russian Prime Minister immediately after the completion of the festive program in Athens on Thursday, March 25, had gone to Thessaloniki and then paid a two-day private pilgrimage to ‘Mount Athos.

The Russian prime minister’s visit is being monitored by the Russian media, including the state-run RIA-Novosti news agency, which reports that Mr Misoustin’s visit to Mount Athos testifies to the continuing importance of the spiritual and historical ties between Russia and of the Greek world “, citing relevant statements by the Deputy Head of the Department of Foreign Ecclesiastical Relations of the Moscow Patriarchate, High Priest Nikolai Balasov.

“It is very gratifying that the Russian state was represented at the festivities, which were organized in Greece, at such a high level. “After all, without the extremely important Russian participation, it would have been impossible to even imagine the liberation of Greece,” said the Russian ecclesiastical diplomat, welcoming the fact that “as an Orthodox Christian, Mikhail Vladimirovich Misustin took advantage of this opportunity again. Mount Athos and pray to his holy water “.

The Russian Prime Minister’s visit to Mount Athos was commented on by the same Russian agency by the deputy of Moscow University Athanasios Zoitakis, who remarked that “we do not know who is the spiritual leader of M. Misoustin, or from which elder he receives some advice, but His spiritual relations with the monastery of Philotheos are, let’s say, obvious “.

The ecclesiastical historian A. Zoitakis also reminded that the Russian Prime Minister had also paid a similar private visit to Mount Athos at the end of September 2020, while “together with his wife they also visited a part of Filotheos, one of the nunneries in Greece (s.s. of the Archangel Michael in Thassos), which is under the spiritual guidance of the elders of Philotheos “

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