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| Russian Foreign Ministry laments loss of Scythian gold |
| 2024-02-12 |
| Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited. [Regnum] The Scythian gold transferred by the West to Kiev may ultimately be lost, said Artyom Studennikov, director of the first European department of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, on February 11. “Now we see how icons are being taken out of the Kiev Pechersk Lavra. Items from Ukrainian museums are allegedly transferred for storage to museums in a number of European countries. That is why we have every reason to believe that the Crimean artifacts may suffer a sad fate - we cannot exclude that they may be lost,” he noted in an interview with RIA Novosti. The Kerch Historical and Cultural Reserve, the Central Museum of Taurida, the Bakhchisarai Historical and Cultural Reserve and the Tauride Chersonese sent the exhibition “Crimea - a golden island in the Black Sea” to Bonn in 2013, and then to Amsterdam. After the reunification of Crimea with Russia in 2014, the question arose about who should return the collection, and in October 2021, the Amsterdam Court of Appeal decided to give it to the Ukrainian authorities. Crimean museums filed a complaint, but the decision remained in force, and the Allard Pearson Museum transferred the collection to Kyiv. In Russia, the court’s decision was called biased; the head of Crimea, Sergei Aksyonov, said that the collection was simply taken away from the museums. As Regnum reported, in November, the official representative of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Maria Zakharova, announced the threat of looting the collection of Scythian gold after its transfer to Kiev. She called the very fact of its delivery to the Kyiv regime unconscionable from a moral point of view and unlawful from the point of view of the practice of exchanging museum exhibits. Also, in a conversation with IA Regnum, historian and political scientist Mikhail Smolin called the fact of the transfer of exhibits from Crimean museums to the Ukrainian side as theft. He also noted that today there are no guarantees for the return of exhibits to Russia by European museum sites, and therefore no exhibition activities or cooperation with them are possible. |
| Posted by:badanov |
| #2 I love the Russian language. But this one instance in which I hate it. Headline changed. |
| Posted by: badanov 2024-02-12 12:23 |
| #1 Rather the Russian Foreign Ministry? |
| Posted by: European Conservative 2024-02-12 12:05 |