Museums of occupied Crimea will appeal the decision on Scythian gold
Four museums in occupied Crimea will appeal to the Supreme Court of the Netherlands against the decision of the Amsterdam Court of Appeal to return Scythian gold to Ukraine.
Your Art reported it.
According to the director of the East Crimean Museum-Reserve Tetyana Umrikhina, the relevant complaint was to be filed by January 26.
According to the newspaper, Umrikhina believes that "Russia as a state should intervene in the lawsuit against the collection of Crimean museums". According to her, "this may return the process to the level of the court of the first instance".
In 2014, the Amsterdam Archaeological Museum hosted an exhibition of 565 exhibits entitled "Crimea - a golden island in the Black Sea", - It ended after the Russian occupation of the peninsula in 2014.
What is known
- On December 14, 2016, the District Court of Amsterdam ruled that the exhibits of the Crimean museums should be returned to Ukraine. The decision was made based on a UNESCO convention, according to which artistic values must be returned to the sovereign state that provided them for temporary exhibition.
- On March 28, 2017, the Court of Appeal of Amsterdam received an appeal from the representatives of the Crimean museums against this court decision. The Scythian gold collection was kept at the Allard Pierson Museum in Amsterdam during the trial.
- In October 2021, the Amsterdam Court of Appeal ruled to return the "Scythian gold" to Ukraine. The collection from the Crimean museums was brought to the exhibition in the Netherlands before the Russian occupation of Crimea.
- In January 2022, employees of the Investigative Committee of Russia interviewed those involved in the transfer of Scythian gold from the territory of Crimea to the Netherlands. They were asked what was needed to be done to return the collection from the Netherlands.
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