Russian Patriarch in Albania on Saturday

Russia's Patriarch Kiril will visit Albania on Saturday, where he will meet with Albanian Archbishop Anastas Yanulatos.

Besides the Archbishop, Kiril will meet with President Ilir Meta, and with top state officials, media in Tirana have reported.

According to European Media and Officials, Kiril is suspected of being a former Soviet service agent Putin's nearby and local KGB (BB) are born in the former town of Leningrad, as well as accused of smuggling illegal cigarettes to increase Putin's influence and power within Russia.

According to material from Soviet archives published in the media, Kiril was a KGB agent (called Mikhailov).

Bulgarian Deputy Prime Minister Valeri has confirmed this charge in March this year, adding that “this is evidence of”.

Bulgarian Deputy Prime Minister Valeri Simeonov had said in an interview in Bulgaria's public broadcaster a day after Russia released Kiril's video of comments to President Roumen Radev during his visit to celebrate Bulgaria's Freedom Day: “Kirili did not come down from heaven ... he is not the messenger of God or of Jesus Christ.

Kiril is known as Russia's cigarette metropolis.  

The close relationship between state and religion in Russia and Slavic countries is evident. Putin is regularly accompanied by church hierarchys in religious dress in political events and has shown that he attends ceremonies at all religious festivals.

Patrick Kiril's private and religious life is linked to multiple scandals, and it makes you realize that business and religion for Kiril and the Russian Church itself are the same. In 2012, the newspaper “Novaya newspaper” published an article referring to the file collected by journalist Sergei Bychkov. Bychkov has written extensively about Kirille's involvement in the tobacco business. None of the Bychkov articles have been rejected, and Kiril has acknowledged the authenticity of many facts collected by Bychkov.

In 1993, a financial group called “Nika” was established, with the participation of the Moscow Patriarchate. Its vice president became Vladimir Veriga, then commercial director of the Church Foreign Relations Department (DECT), which was headed by Metropolitan Kiril. After a year two humanitarian aid commissions were presented, one linked to the Russian government, which determined that “humanitarian aid” would be released from taxes and excises, and the other related to DECT, which sold goods, including cigarettes and alcohol, to commercial structures.

A large part of the “humanitarian aid” that was tax-free was sold through regular trade channels with existing market prices.

According to figures by the Russian government commission for humanitarian aid quoted by “Novaya Gazeta”, in 1996 alone, DECT imported eight billion dollars of cigarettes. This was a serious blow to the tobacco barons of the period, who were forced to pay excise duties and taxes and, as a result, could not compete with the Church. This business was also done despite the Orthodox Church's view of smoking as a sin.

The third course of Kirille's activities was the products of the sea. According to the site, Portal-Credo.ru, who follows the state of religion in Russia and quoted by Novaya Gazeta, katka crabs and locusts were distributed in the sum of more than 4,000 tons through the company “Region”. The same is said to be founded by Kiril.

Connection goals Putin Church 

Deutche Well has raised the question of whether the Russian Orthodox Church has become Putin's political tool in relation to human rights and all politics? And directors Glen Ellis and Victoria Kolsina, who had gone to Russia to discover the link between Putin and the Russian Orthodox Church, have said that “many political opponents of Putin believe that the intense support they give each other contributes to the rise of social and religious conservativeism, intolerance nationalism and the rise that Putin's cult”.

Many other media accuse the clergy of the Russian Orthodox Church of stirring fear among their fellow believers of approaching catalysma and sanctifying Putin.

However, Putin and Kiril come from many things in common where they come from and have common goals for the future. Build, assess Western analysts are also holding Russian powers, misusing Russian citizens' indisposed welfare and continuing financial ties.

This is the first visit of the Russian Patriarch to Albania.