Crimea sued in the Netherlands because of the gold

Crimean museums have decided to seek the assistance of the law, to return a collection of Scythian gold from the Netherlands. Cultural institutions filed in the Tribunal of Amsterdam, demanding the resumption of justice.

Museum pool as part of the Kerch historical and cultural reserve, the Central Museum of Tauris, Bakhchsarai historical and cultural reserve and the National preserve of Tauric Chersonesos asked to return a collection, provided for the exhibition at the Allard Pierson Museum in Amsterdam, said the Director of the Kerch historical and cultural reserve Tatiana umrihina.

"We will make maximum efforts to protect their own legitimate rights and interests of saving the unity of Museum collections and the rights of the peoples of Crimea on their cultural archaeological heritage", - says the statement on the website of the reserve.

This story started back in early February, when in Amsterdam were taken, according to different sources, from 500 to 2,000 exhibits of 5 museums: 4 Crimean and the National history Museum of Ukraine in Kiev. Exhibition "Crimea. Gold and the mystery of the Black sea was opened on 7 February 2014 and became the main foreign exhibition in the history of Ukraine.

In late March, after the Peninsula became part of Russia, Amsterdam Museum entered into negotiations with Moscow and Kiev about the fate of exported values. The future of Kiev exhibits beyond doubt, and the fate of the main Crimean part of the collection was the subject of the dispute.

Russia announced that gold should be returned to their museums, regardless of their nationality, because the contract for the exhibition was signed not only between countries but also between museums. Ukraine parried: the exhibits included in the Museum Fund of the state and are considered to be state property, and therefore must be transferred to Kiev. The Museum in the Netherlands, which displays the Scythian gold from the museums of the Crimea, after the official closing of the exhibition on August 31, made his decision.

"The Allard Pierson Museum decided not to make decisions about which of the parties should be given an ambiguous objects. The Allard Pierson Museum will perform a decision by a qualified judge or arbitrator will either wait for agreement between the parties," quote "Izvestia" communiquц? of the University of Amsterdam, belongs to the Museum. Before guaranteed Museum, "ambiguous items will be kept safe."

Because after almost 3 months since the closing of the exposition, Russia and Ukraine failed to agree, the Crimean museums decided to file a lawsuit. Earlier the Ministry of foreign Affairs of the Netherlands and the Ministry of culture of the Russian Federation officially announced that the dispute is not classified interstate and solved solely on the Museum level.

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