The Ukrainian authorities are trying to RAID seizure collection of Scythian gold from the Crimean museums, which is exhibited in the Netherlands, said the Minister of culture of Crimea Arina nowosielski.
" This Gold has always been in the Crimea, and how the Ukrainian Authorities act, other than a raider takeover can not be named. In the end justice will prevail, and the Museum ethics, decency Among Museum managers will outweigh any illegal actions of the Ukrainian Authorities, " said nowosielski, her words cites RIA " Novosti ". According to the Minister, the Ukrainian Authorities are trying illegally to assign a property and a collection that life belonged to the Crimea." The collection is registered in the list of the museums of Crimea, and in another way can not be ", - stressed nowosielski. However, she said that the Ministry of culture will be all sorts of ways to secure the return of the collection of Scythian gold on the Crimean land, based on the recommendations of the Ministry of culture of the Russian Federation and the Ministry of foreign Affairs of Russia. Recall, in March, Kiev asked in a persistent form to return Scythian Gold Ukraine. The Ministry of foreign Affairs of Ukraine sent to the Netherlands note with the request to ensure the return of Ukraine exhibits of the exhibitions of the Crimean museums, which were on the exhibition " Crimea: Gold and the secrets of the Black sea " in Amsterdam. More than five hundred artifacts exhibited at the exhibition " Crimea. Gold and the secrets of the Black sea ". Among them is a unique Collection of Scythian gold, and discovered by archaeologists in the area of Crimea swords, armor, helmets, household utensils of the ancient Greeks and Scythians. First General Director of the Hermitage Mikhail Piotrovsky said that the Collection of Scythian gold, which was provided by the Crimean museums exhibition in Amsterdam, may not return to the Peninsula, and become the property of Ukraine. Special representative of Russian President for international cultural cooperation Mikhail Shvydkoi said that the Scythian Gold of the Crimean museums, which is placed on the exhibition in Amsterdam, I must return to the Crimea. In some mass media was held data on other Museum collections of Scythian gold, belonging to the museums of Kiev. Unconfirmed sources argued that the Prime Minister of Ukraine Arseniy Yatsenyuk could take out This collection in exchange for IMF tranche.

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