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

Russia. Moscow. Father Leonid, rector of the Russian Old Believer Church, Ivan Filippovich Khrapov, head of the Main Criminal Investigation Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation, Vladimir Ivanovich Prozorov, 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, Metropolitan of Moscow and All Rus' Alimpiy (Alexander Kapitonovich Gusev), head of the Russian Orthodox Old Believer Church, and Mikhail Sergeyevich Doronin, deputy head of the Information and Public Relations Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation (from left to right) during a ceremony to hand over books of great historical and cultural value that were confiscated from smugglers by the Main Criminal Investigation Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation during a joint operation with US intelligence agencies in 1995. Valery Khristoforov/TASS