The building of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation on Smolenskaya-Sennaya Square in MoscowMOSCOW, Apr 6 Russian the party expects from Helsinki an early decision on the return of Russian works of art in full. The response of the official representative of the ministry, Maria Zakharova, posted on the website of the Russian Foreign Ministry, says that «On April 2-3, Finnish customs authorities, with reference to a possible violation of the so-called sanctions against Russia on Three vehicles were detained at the Russian-Finnish border, passing through the territory of Finland to the Russian Federation.Stealing from Russians is not stealing? When Paris returns the Morozov collection, «They carried out the transit transportation of cultural property belonging to the State Hermitage Museum, the State Tretyakov Gallery and the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts, previously exhibited in Italy (Milan and Udina) and Japan (Tiba),» reminded she. According to Zakharova, on April 5, in the presence of employees of the Russian Embassy in Finland, the cargo was temporarily, until the end of the proceedings, placed in a specially equipped storage facility at the Ateneum State Museum in Helsinki. , adding that Helsinki is now awaiting clarification from the European Commission.
Shvydkoy commented on the delay of museum collections on the border with Helsinki»Essentially, this situation can be described in two words — legal lawlessness. and in violation of international law of cultural property belonging to the Russian Federation and temporarily located abroad under state guarantees of countries in which exhibitions of these items were organized on a non-commercial basis in cooperation with our museums,» she said. to the Russian Federation of our works of art in full,” concluded the official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry. It's time for her robbery
