Those attending the conference were greeted by its co-chairmen: Rector of the University V. Filippov and Ambassador of Kazakhstan in Moscow M. Tazhin.
The deputy head of the Presidential Administration, M. Magomedov, read out the message from Russian President V. Putin, while the deputy head of the Kazakhstan Presidential Administration, B. Mailybayev, read out the message of President of Kazakhstan N. Nazarbayev.
Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, chairman of the Moscow Patriarchate’s Department for External Church Relations, read out the message of His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia and delivered an address.
The conference, attending which are representatives of the state authorities of Russia and Kazakhstan, religious, public and academic figures, and educationists, continued its work in four sections.
