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The author is a well-known international journalist, since December 1991 he has been head of the ITAR-TASS office in Italy and the Vatican, accredited in the Republic of San Marino and the Sovereign Order of Malta. Since 2002, as part of the papal press pool, he has been the only Russian correspondent who accompanies the Roman pontiffs on board their special aircraft, covering papal apostolic visits abroad. In the retinue of John Paul II he visited Kazakhstan, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, Croatia, Switzerland, France; with Benedict XVI - Germany, Poland, Spain, Turkey, Brazil, Austria, Australia, Cameroon, Angola, Holy Land (Jordan, Israel, Palestinian Authority), Czech Republic, Malta, Portugal, Cyprus, Great Britain, Benin, Mexico, Cuba and Lebanon . With Pope Francis in July 2013 he visited the World Youth Day in Rio de Janeiro, and in May 2014 in the Middle East (Jordan, Palestine, Israel). The book tells the Russian reader about the history of the papacy, about the relationship between Orthodoxy and Catholicism,...