Russia and Greece's relationship spans over a thousand years. They do share the same religion (Orthodox Christianity), after all. The defining moment in slavi

Russia and Greece's relationship spans over a thousand years. They do share the same religion (Orthodox Christianity), after all. The defining moment in slavic history was when St. Vladimir converted to Christianity. This of course also created their alliance and ties to the Greek Byzantine empire... Even the Cyrillic alphabet was based on the Greek alphabet, with extra characters for slavic language.