the head of the russian orthodox church bought them out of the real has a right to the ukrainian capital kiev to take part in the celebrations along with his counterpart from georgia and the head of the russian orthodox church in ukraine . it's been exactly one thousand and twenty three years since this part of the world adopted orthodox christianity now when. arrived at the solemn liturgy in front of the. monument. dedicated to the baptism to the adoption of christianity in this part of the world he was greeted by tens of thousands of people who were chanting that. is the real. clearly this shows that the the attitude towards the russia ukraine is still very warm and he is being greeted here with much respect lately kiev has been named as one of the single capitals of the russian orthodox church along with moscow and st petersburg it is interesting because of course capital of a sovereign state of ukraine and this means that the russian orthodox church goes beyond the borders to unite the clergy on the space it is a large scale celebration which is being held in the capitals of ukraine

the orthodox church in ukraine was split into several parts now the most compassionate the russian orthodox church is of course the largest you have the largest representation we've heard calls for all throughout the last several years that the church must be united in ukraine but so far all the efforts to make a single church have been fruitless now when the truck the real. liturgy in front of the. monument in key of the central monuments dedicated to the baptism through the adoption of christianity in this part of the world. he was greeted by tens of thousands of people who were chanting that. is the real. news now. hello and welcome to business here are most people just in off on their holidays this week probably aren't heading for the north caucuses but politically troubled russian region is barely on the tourist map however the government hopes to change all that's as much of a question of reports the creation of new tourist destinations in the north caucasus is the key strategy of the russian government to bring economic revival to the trouble to region the sums involved have been rai

there behind me to attend the biggest liturgy the biggest service held by the head of the russian orthodox church but they have to deal with came over to the ukrainian capital to mark the celebrations of the christianization of ancient russia indeed a thousand and twenty three years ago. who was back then reigning in the key of adopted christianity he took several citizens of the key of to the waters of the river here in kiev and turned them into orthodox christians this is the biggest religious holiday for the believe years old across the post soviet space indeed russia ukraine and belarus are celebrating this holiday and today it's thursday is the final day of the celebrations of course this is a very important for the history of russia that the country adopted orthodox christianity but that choice may well have been different and the beautiful mona she which you can see may have easily been a mosque because back then in the year nine hundred eighty eight delegates from all religions came over to key of two of the priests to offer their religion historians are still finding proper explanation w