Old Believers supported installation of a monument Ivana III on Lubyanskaya Square

The idea of installation of a monument Ivana III on a place of a monument to Dzerzhinsky on Lubyanskaya Square is supported by the World union of conservatives, his head Sevastyanov Leonid declared on February 15. "Unfortunately, present politicians often perceive national history since the time of Lenin and Dzerzhinsky, at best — since the time of Peter I. Conservatives consider that we have to reckon from the sources, and Ivan III, as we know, was one of ancestors of modern Russian statehood" — he declared. Conservatives consider Ivan the III confessor as he personifies...