"The Bible came to the heart of Russia’s political life when an exhibition held in the State Duma in Moscow displayed ancient and rare manuscripts to politicians for the first time in the modern history of the Russian Federation."

"The exhibition, ‘The Bible in Russia’, was held to mark a number of significant dates in the history of the Bible in Russia - the 950th anniversary of Ostromirov's Gospel, the oldest preserved manuscript in Russian, the 130th anniversary of the Synodal Bible, the first translation of the Bible into Russian, and the 50th anniversary of the first mass edition of the Bible in Russian, produced by the Russian Orthodox Church after the Communist revolution."

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