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RFE/RL: Crimean museums appeal court ruling returning Scythian gold to Kyiv

Published Jan. 26, 2017 at 11:04 am

An undated handout picture released on Dec. 14, 2016 by the Allard Pierson Museum shows a 1st-century AD golden pendant in the shape of a deer, found in a grave at the necropolis of Ust'Alma and which is part of the "Crimea: Gold and Secrets of the Black Sea" at the Allard Pierson Museum in Amsterdam.

Photo by AFP

Museums in Crimea have appealed a Dutch court ruling that said artifacts from their collections should be returned to Ukraine rather than to the Russian-controlled peninsula, a Russian lawmaker said on Jan. 25.

“We have filed an appeal. We hope that a right political decision will be taken,” said Natalya Poklonskaya, a Russian parliament deputy and former prosecutor in the Russian-imposed government in Crimea.