Dutch court will decide who to give the Scythian treasures – Ukraine and occupied Crimea
Dutch court will decide who to give the Scythian treasures – Ukraine and occupied Crimea
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The Museum exhibits were taken to Europe three years ago.
The district court of Amsterdam today can put an end to the dispute, to whom the Netherlands have to return the Scythian treasures. More than two thousand ancient artifacts in 2014, was taken to the exhibition of the Ukrainian Crimea, and to return already require power controlled by Russian museums in the occupied Peninsula.
The court should announce its decision at 11:00 Kyiv time, the correspondent of “Radio Liberty” Grigory Zhigalov in the program TSN.Ranok. To predict its outcome, lawyers are not taken, international law does not have specific recipes.
He Dutch Museum, which hosted the travelling exhibition of Scythian treasures from comments abstains from the beginning of the trial and calls the situation is unique. Took artifacts from Ukrainian museums that are located in the Crimea, and to return already require the museums that are subordinate to the occupying Russian authorities.
Kiev claims that the treasure does not belong to specific museums and Museum Fund of Ukraine. However, to return exhibits to Ukraine without trial, the Dutch side refused.
We will remind, the exhibition in the Netherlands opened in February 2014, a month before the start of the Russian occupation and annexation of Crimea. Among the exhibits – artifacts of Scythian gold, jewels and swords of the ancient Greeks and Scythians.
Earlier it became known that Ukraine asks Interpol to declare the Scythian gold in the international search.
The district court of Amsterdam will decide who the Netherlands need to return Scythian treasures
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More than two thousand ancient artifacts in 2014 brought to the exhibition from the Ukrainian Crimea, and to require in return are already controlled by Russian authorities museums in the occupied Peninsula. What are the chances of Kiev to return unique relics, refer to the material TSN.