PRESTIGIOUS RUSSIAN MEDAL RECENTLY AWARDED TO MILORAD DODIK, PRESIDENT OF SRPSKA
For Religion and Freedom Despite the pressures he is exposed to, he has managed to preserve Republika Srpska and stop the process of its nullification, but also to preserve stable relations with Russia, strengthen Christian Orthodox Serbian-Russian ties and identity of Slavic people – it is said in the explanation read by Valeri Alexeiev, president of the Orthodox People’s Unity Fund. The medal is decided by Patriarch Cyril and top Russian state officials
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n March 11, at the Temple of Christ the Savior in Moscow, Patriarch of Moscow and the entire Russia Cyril handed out the medal of the Orthodox People’s Unity Fund for 2013 to the president of Republika Srpska Milorad Dodik. The award ceremony in the luxurious Hall of Church Councils of the Temple of Christ
the Savior was attended by director of the Russian State Secretariat for Religions of Srpska DraPatriarch gan Davidović, head of the representative ofCyril and fice of Srpska in Russia Duško Perović, direcpresident of tor Emir Kusturica, ambassador of Serbia in Srpska Milorad Russia Slavenko Terzić, ambassador of B&H Dodik at the Ivan Barbalić, a large number of important ceremony guests from Russian public life. SRPSK A No 5 2014
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