Russian minister blasts Netherlands’ Scythian gold ruling

Dmitry Korobeinikov ‘Similar to Nazi looting’: Russian minister blasts Netherlands’ Scythian gold ruling Sputnik 16 Nov, 2017

 Russian Culture Minister Vladimir Medinsky has described a decision by a Dutch court not to return a collection of Scythian gold to Crimea as a “most dangerous precedent,” and threatened to sever all museum ties with the Netherlands. [...] The minister was reacting to a decision by a court not to return 500 Scythian gold artifacts, which Dutch museums had borrowed from Crimean collections. [...]  The exhibits of Scythian gold were delivered from several Crimean museums to the Allard Pierson Museum in Amsterdam in February 2014, shortly before the Crimean Republic reunited with the Russian Federation following a referendum that attained almost universal support. [...]  Russian officials have repeatedly condemned the ruling as a dangerous precedent that threatens the whole system of international cultural exchange.