Patriarch Kirill

Patriach of Moscow and All Rus Kirill, left, during the festive prayer service on the occasion of Memory Day to St. Vladimir at Vladimir's Hill, in Kiev, on Wednesday, July 27, 2011. This day in Kiev near the monument to Vladimir - Baptist of Rus - a festive prayer service took place. A worship service was attended by all members of the Holy Synod of the Russian Orthodox Church, the Cathedral of bishops from Ukraine, Belarus, Russia and Georgia, the clergy of those countries. Near the monument there were about a thousand people. Photo by Andrey Skakodub / UNIAN