Putin pays tribute to Pope Francis: ‘He had a highly positive attitude towards Russia’

Putin pays tribute to Pope, says: 'Didn't die in vain' AP

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00:00This is a person, I want to emphasize again, who in higher degree относился to Russia, and we will remember that.

00:09The fact that Pope Rims came out of life in the Passover days, I don't know how to do it with Catholics,

00:17but there is a sense of understanding, there is a tradition of understanding that if God calls a person in Passover,

00:29it is an important sign of the fact that a person has spent a lot of good life for people.

00:39The Pope Rims did not only for his Passover, but also for the world in the whole.

00:45We bring the most valuable benefits to all the Christian world and, first of all, of the Catholics.