The exhibition was prepared by the Russian Military Historical Society and focuses on unique Crimean artefacts discovered during archaeological expeditions and kept for many years in the region’s largest museums.
❗️Today, these exhibits are being illegally withheld by Ukraine and its Western allies.
In 2013, four Crimean museums temporarily loaned more than 580 items to the University of Bonn and the Allard Pierson Museum in the Netherlands for the exhibition “Crimea: Gold and Secrets of the Black Sea”. After Crimea became part of Russia, Ukraine claimed ownership of the collection. Dutch courts ruled that the historical artefacts should be “returned” to Ukraine, rejecting an appeal by the Crimean museums.
🎙 Excerpt from a briefing by Russian MFA Spokesperson Maria Zakharova:
Representatives of the leadership of foreign museums grossly violated their contractual obligations to serve the political interests of unfriendly countries.
At the same time, the corrupted Kiev regime plans to put the Crimean gold into financial and economic circulation. Russia’s historical heritage may soon end up in the collection of a wealthy Western collector or, for example, in the hands of another Ukrainian oligarch-lawmaker.
