Amsterdam’s appellate court decided to return the Scythian gold to Ukraine – the collection of archaeological sites – which is in the Netherlands since 2013, reports RIA Novosti.
In December 2016, Amsterdam District Court decided to return the collection to the local museum to the Annexia of Crimea. But with this decision, the Crimean museums did not agree, from the expositions of which they created this collection.
A bureaucratic dispute about the relationship between museums and ministries of different countries over the years has become a fierce political battle, in which Ukraine and Russia took part.
Recall that the story began in the summer of 2013, when from the exhibits of the Kiev Museum of historical values and four more museums located in Crimea, 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.
In March 2014, the former Ukrainian Deputy Prime Minister of Ukraine on humanitarian issues Alexander Sych said that Russia intends to take the exhibits of the Crimean museums, staying outside of Ukraine, to St. Petersburg Hermitage.