Medvedev accused Europe of "trying to pocket" paintings from Russia

The Deputy HEAD of the Security Council named the countries of Europe, because of the position of which the return of paintings from Russian collections is delayed,"banal thieves" Dmitry Medvedev

Deputy Chairman of the Security Council Dmitry Medvedev accused Europe of trying to appropriate paintings from Russian collections that are being returned with delays or cannot return to the country due to the difficulties caused by the sanctions.

“What is characteristic: Dostoevsky, Chekhov, Shostakovich and Pushkin are anathematized by many Europeans with clinical pleasure. But material values ​​temporarily located abroad are quite ready to be pocketed with the help of formal delays. <...> Well done Europeans, simply handsome… Well, or banal thieves, from which side to look,” Medvedev wrote in TELEGRAM.

The Hermitage announced the return of paintings detained in Finland Society

According to him, “the bureaucracy of the European Union impudently forced Finland under far-fetched “sanctions” pretexts” to detain paintings from the Hermitage, the Tretyakov Gallery and the Pushkin Museum, which were exhibited in Italy and Japan, at the border. Medvedev noted that "colossal efforts" managed to persuade the local Foreign Ministry to back down and issue a permit for the transportation of paintings to RUSSIA.

Also, the deputy head of the Security Council noted, "not shaky or rolled" is the process of returning to Russia the paintings exhibited by the Louis Vuitton Foundation in Paris as part of the display of the collection of the Morozov brothers.

“This is a good lesson for the whole world for the future. If you do not want your property to be under arrest, in the third decade of the 21st century, you cannot take the word of the authorities of European countries. Their letters of guarantee are not worth the paper they are printed on. <...> And I still recommend that representatives of the degenerate European establishment watch the film "Alexander Nevsky" and listen to the final cantata. it will help to better understand: do not anger the Russians, return someone else's, so that in the end you will not be under the ice of Lake Peipsi again, ”Medvedev said.

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He stated that Russia would not shut itself off from the world in response. “We have a busy agenda with the countries of the CIS, BRICS, Latin America and Africa. These states are home to billions of well-adjusted people who value, love and wait for us,” he added.

On April 4, Special Representative of the President for International Cultural Cooperation Mikhail Shvydkoy announced the detention of paintings from Russian museums, including those from the Hermitage, in Finland. According to him, the exhibits got stuck at customs. He attributed the delay to bureaucratic procedures. At the same time, the Finnish customs confirmed that from April 2 to 4, three consignments of goods “falling under EU sanctions” were detained at the Vaalimaa checkpoint.

In addition to paintings from the Hermitage, we are also talking about exhibits from the Tsarskoye Selo, Pavlovsk and Gatchina museum-reserves, the State Tretyakov Gallery, the State Museum of the East and the Pushkin Museum. They were presented at two exhibitions in Italy (in Milan and Udine) and at the Chiba Museum in Japan.

On April 7, the Russian Foreign Ministry protested to Finnish Ambassador Antti Helanter. After that, the Finnish customs officers requested an explanation from the European Commission (EC). The EC said that paintings that participated in European exhibitions are not subject to restrictions. In the end, the Finnish Foreign Ministry allowed the work to be returned to Russia.

On April 9, the Hermitage announced that the paintings had arrived in Russia. Among them are the works of Antonio Canova, Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres, Vigée Lebrun, the painting “The Tolstoy Family in Venice” by Giulio Carlini, the press service of the museum specified.

At the same time, the French Ministry of Culture reported that two paintings from the collection of the brothers Mikhail and Ivan Morozov, which were on display at the Louis Vuitton Foundation in Paris, will remain in France. According to Le Monde, the first canvas belongs to businessman Peter Aven, who fell under EU sanctions. The publication clarifies that we are talking about the painting "Self-Portrait in Gray" by Pyotr Konchalovsky. The second work - a portrait of Margarita Morozova by Valentin Serov - belongs to the Dnepropetrovsk Museum of Fine Arts in Ukraine.