Deputy Foreign Minister Ioannis Amanatidis is carrying out a two-day visit to Saint Petersburg, representing the government at the inauguration of the “Byzantium through the Centuries” exhibit at the Hermitage Museum.
Mr. Amanatidis today, Thursday, 23 June, visited the “Greek Paper Hagiography” exhibit at the State Museum of the History of Religion, and he met subsequently with a delegation of professors and students from the Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies Department of the State University of Saint Petersburg.
Mr. Amanatidis will also be having a working meeting this afternoon with members of the Greek community of Saint Petersburg and the Board of the “Petropolis” National Association of Greeks, at the Greek Consulate General.
Mr. Amanatidis will be received tomorrow, Friday, 24 June, at the Governorate of the Saint Petersburg, by the 1st Vice President of the Foreign Relations Committee, Igor Olegovich Lonskiy, and the 1st Vice President of the Culture Committee, Alexander Nikolaevich Voronko.
Mr. Amanatidis will then go to the Hermitage Museum, where he will inaugurate the “Byzantium through the Centuries” exhibit, together with Russian Culture Minister V. R. Medinskiy.
June 23, 2016