Viktor Yanukovich and Patriarch Kirill

President of Ukraine Viktor Yanukovich, right, and Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus’, Kirill I during meeting in Kiev, on Tuesday, November 23, 2010. President Yanukovych welcomed Patriarch Kirill I in Ukraine and thanked him for the visit. "I am very grateful to you, Your Holiness, for coming to us on this holiday – the birthday of the Primate of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church, Metropolitan of Kyiv and All Ukraine. I am very glad to see you," Viktor Yanukovich said. Patriarch Kirill I said he was glad to be in Kyiv again on the occasion of Metropolitan Volodymyr’s birthday. "Following the call of my heart I came to embrace my brother Metropolitan Volodymyr on his birthday, who proves with his life that if a man is living by Christian faith, he can achieve much in life," he said. Photo by Andrey Mosienko / POOL / UNIAN