“Amsterdam’s court decision on Scythian gold creates a dangerous precedent,” the official representative of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation Maria Zakharov said on Wednesday.
According to her, the verdict of the Appeal Court of Amsterdam creates an extremely dangerous precedent, which undermines the confidence between the museum communities of different countries and raises the further prospects for intermatoic cooperation, including between Russia and the Netherlands. Regretted.
She also noted that Amsterdam’s court, having decided to transfer gold Scythians to Ukraine, was guided exclusively by political motifs.
Recall, a story with Scythian gold began in the summer of 2013, when the historical values of the historical values and four more museums located in the Crimea were formed, a collection of 584 exhibits was formed.
In early February 2014, according to the signed contract, the exhibits were transported to Amsterdam, where they had to be shifted until the end of August. Here the exhibition survived the change of power in Ukraine, and then not recognized by Ukraine or the Netherlands annexation of the Crimea.