On Saturday at 10 will start in the Vatican Funeral ceremonies of Pope Francis. The head of the Catholic Church will say goodbye to the leaders of many countries from around the world, but Among them will not be Vladimir Putin.
On Tuesday, his spokesman Dmitry Pieskov announced that the Russian leader will not appear in the Vatican. – The president has no such plans – he passed on to journalists. He added then that the decision about who would represent Russia has not yet been made.
The funeral of Pope Francis. The Russian minister is flying to the Vatican
On Wednesday evening, the Russian agency RIA Nowosti said that by Putin's decision for the funeral of Franciszek to the Vatican, she would succeed culture minister Olga Libimwhich has been managing the ministry for five years.
She is the first woman to take this function since 1974.
The death of the Pope. Putin: He did a lot for his sheepdog
The Pope died on Easter Monday at 7:35 am, and the information about his death spread the world a few hours later.
– Pope Francis He did a lot for his sheepdog and for the whole world (…) He had a very positive attitude towards Russia – he said on Monday during the speech Vladimir Putin.
Putin's presence at Franciszek's funeral It seemed from the beginning impossible. The Russian leader is prosecuted for war crimes by the International Criminal Court in The Hague.
The arrest warrant issued to the Russian president concerns his participation in forced resettlements in the territory of the Federation of the Russian part of the civilian population living in the eastern part of Ukraineoccupied by Russian troops.
Italy is a signatories of the Roman MTK statute, Which means that the services of this country would be obliged to detain Putin if he landed on the Apennine Peninsula.