Moscow - Russian President Vladimir Putin, during his meeting on Wednesday, May 24, 2017, with Pope Tawadros II of Alexandria and Patriarch of St. Mark Disoces, pointed out Russia's good relations with the leadership and people of Egypt, Tass news agency reported Thursday. "We have very good ties with all the people of Egypt without separating them into religious denominations," Putin said. His meeting with the head of the Coptic Church took place in the residence of the Patriarch of Moscow and all Russia Kirill I, where he had arrived to congratulate the Moscow Patriarch on the occasion of the day when the Church venerated St. Cyril the Enlightener of the Slavs, Kirill I's patron saint.