In this letter, the Norwegian Foreign Ministry requests police protection for the large gold ring from the Hoen Hoard, which was included in the exhibition Norway and the Soviet Union. This took place on the occasion of a state visit by Nikita Khrushchev, head of the Soviet government. Contemporary research assumed that the ring, which was discovered in Norway in 1834, was originally made on the territory of modern-day Russia, and could thus be exhibited as evidence for the historic roots of the contact between the two regions. Although Norway had joined NATO in 1949, the country’s border with Russia meant that it was keen to maintain good relations with the Soviet Union.