Ceremony of handing over books to the Old Believer Church in Moscow

Russia. Moscow. The head of the Russian Orthodox Old Believer Church, Metropolitan of Moscow and All Rus' Alimpiy (Alexander Kapitonovich Gusev), the head of the department for uncovering criminal attacks on cultural property of the Main Criminal Investigation Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation Vladimir Ivanovich Prozorov and the deputy head of the Information and Public Relations Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation Mikhail Sergeyevich Doronin (from left to right) during the ceremony of handing over books of great historical and cultural value, which were confiscated by the Main Criminal Investigation Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation from smugglers during a joint operation with US intelligence agencies in 1995. Valery Khristoforov/TASS