Awarding of ITAR-TASS journalists in Moscow

Russia. Moscow. Special photo correspondent Gennady Ivanovich Khamelyanin, ITAR-TASS Director General Vitaly Nikitich Ignatenko, ITAR-TASS special photo correspondent Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Chumichev (from left to right), former ITAR-TASS photo correspondent Yuri Arsenyevich Lizunov, ITAR-TASS photo correspondents Andrei Borisovich Solovyov and Dmitry Yuryevich Sokolov and People's Deputy of the Russian Federation Father Gleb Pavlovich Yakunin (from right to left), awarded the "Defender of Free Russia" medals, after the award ceremony in the agency's main building on Tverskoy Boulevard. Oleg Buldakov/TASS