The plane of the president of Russia Vladimir Putin in the Greek air space will be met and will accompanied by three Greek fighters, having done thus military honors, reported the Greek public television of ERT.
It is expected b that at the airport of the president of Russia the minister of national defense of Greece will meet Panos Kammenos. At the airport the Guard of honor is already built, transfers RIA Novosti news agency .
On Friday Putin's two-day visit to Greece during which the Russian leader will meet the president of Greece Prokopis Pavlopoulos and the prime minister Alexis Tsipras begins.
Let's remind, earlier on Friday to Athos also there arrived the patriarch Kirill where Putin will arrive on May 28, on Saturday.
Putin together with the president of Greece Prokopis Pavlopoulos will meet with Sacred Film volume – cathedral governing body of Mount Athos into which representatives of all 20 Athos monasteries enter, will visit the temple of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin, and also will be present together with the patriarch of Moscow and all Russia Kirill at a ceremony to anniversary of the Russian monastic presence on Athos. The head of Russian Orthodox Church patriarch Kirill will be on Athos from May 27 to May 29. The short public prayer and greeting will take place from monks of a monastery.
The abbot of a monastery skhiarkhimandrit Jeremiah (Alyokhin) to whom in October of last year 100 years were executed will accept the president of Russia.
At the beginning of April the official representative of the Greek government Olga Gerovasili invited Putin to visit the republic.