“Your Holiness ... Let me cordially congratulate you on the Day of Intronization - 11 years have passed. So fast that I think you didn’t notice them. And we noticed: noticed your ascetic work, our whole society noticed the results of this work. Thank you so much for everything: for the love of both faith and the Fatherland. Congratulations! ”- RIA Novosti quotes Putin as saying.
The patriarch thanked Putin for the congratulations.
Earlier, Patriarch Kirill allowed the possibility of partial worship in modern Russian, and not only in Church Slavonic.