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Mark Lansbury

Ukrainian artifacts stolen by Russia appearing on black markets

Historical #artifacts #stolen by Russia in Ukraine have emerged on global black markets, Prosecutor General Andrii Kostin said in an interview

Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine has been accompanied by large-scale looting of cultural heritage in the occupied territories, with hundreds of artifacts recorded to be stolen.

"In addition to the systematic destruction of our #cultural heritage, Russia resorts to another crime: stealing valuable cultural objects," Kostin said.

"These artifacts, stolen from our museums and #archeological sites, are now appearing on black markets. We already have enough evidence to launch new #criminal proceedings."

https://kyivindependent.com/ukrainian-artifacts-stolen-by-russia-appear-on-black-markets-kyiv-says/

#WarCrimes #theft #looting #BlackMarket #RussianTheft

Ukrainian artifacts stolen by Russia appearing on black markets, Kyiv says

"These artifacts, stolen from our museums and archeological sites, are now appearing on black markets. We already have enough evidence to launch new criminal proceedings," Prosecutor General Andrii Kostin said.

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girlofthesea@diasporasocial.net
Girl Of The

#wwii #history #nazi #looting #jewish #artcollections

JEWISH ART COLLECTIONS - WW11
Saved from Nazi Looting.
A detail of the tapestry Wild Men and Moors, from about 1440 Charles Potter Kling Fund. Photograph by Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.The 15th-century tapestry Wild Men and Moors was recently featured in a series of tweets by Victoria Reed, the provenance curator at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.

  • The Nazi leader Hermann Goering usually got the art he wanted, especially when it belonged to a Jewish collector. But one Germany’s oldest and finest medieval tapestries eluded the Nazi leader’s grasp. The German-Jewish industrialist Ottmar Strauss defied the Nazis in a quiet act of resistance by getting a number of items in his art collection out of Germany. Some of the looted items have been returned to his Jewish heirs.
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berternste2@diasp.nl
Bert Ernste • NL | BR

Return the Parthenon marbles. The British Museum has too much stuff anyway

The Guardian

These relics from the fountainhead of European culture don’t belong in a cold, grey Bloomsbury chamber.

The Parthenon marbles row is beyond silly. Rishi Sunak screeches “Mine, mine” like a child in a playground. (...) The nation yawns – polls show over half are happy to see the marbles returned and just above 20% want them to stay. Any civilised Briton knows they should be displayed where they belong – in their former home of Athens. (...)

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Photo of Parthenon marbles in British Museum
Visitors to the British Museum in London view sculptures that are part of the Parthenon marbles collection, 28 November 2023. Photograph: Kirsty Wigglesworth/AP.

[A]s any visitor to Greece knows, what to Britain is a boring scholastic quarrel is to Greeks a burning sense of grievance that will not go away. This is an asymmetrical row.(...)

Of course Britain has legal title to the statues, but laws can be changed. Of course Lord Elgin probably saved them from destruction, though they were later damaged in cleaning. (...)

The marbles issue is simply about the integrity of one of Europe’s greatest artistic compositions. These statues came from the fountainhead of European culture at its most formative moment, in the 5th century BC. That fountainhead was on the Acropolis in Athens, gazing out over the sunny Aegean with marble from the adjacent mountain, not imprisoned in a cold, grey chamber in Bloomsbury. (...)

Science could satisfyingly replicate the Parthenon marbles in both Athens and London. But to the Greeks – far more than any Britons – this is indeed about authenticity. The Parthenon is their ancestral temple and the marbles their crown jewels. They badly want them back. And surely a cultured country such as Britain should have the dignity to oblige. It has the power to restore integrity to this stupendous composition in the land of its creation. (...)

But a post-imperial arrogance has crept into the marbles debate. Britain’s government is telling the rest of the world: you may have got your independence back, but you are not getting your stuff. (...)

The great collections of antiquity are more or less confined to a few grand museums in Europe and America, products of national aggrandisement in the 19th century. These institutions are fanatically reactionary. (...)

There is nothing sacred about a museum. It is an unnatural place to leave thousands of objects frozen in time and place, vulnerable to theft and decay. (...)

The truth is that most museums have too much stuff, far too much. They should distribute it to the rest of the world. Returning the Parthenon marbles might indeed be a precedent, and an excellent one.

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Tags: #greece #great_britain #united_kingdom #british_museum #parthenon #elgin_marbles #parthenon_marbles #looting #art #museum

escheche@diasp.org
Sylvia J

Bolivia and Peru Express Concern over the Situation of the Palestinian People, the War in Ukraine, more ...

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/bolivia-and-peru-express-concern-over-the-situation-of-the-palestinian-people-and-the-war-in-ukraine/ar-AA123oYF
https://nitter.it/KawsachunNews/status/1572355002894790662
https://www.aa.com.tr/en/americas/bolivias-president-lashes-out-against-capitalist-system-in-un-address/2690400

Bolivia will not allow the #foreign #looting of their #lithium #reserves.

#americas #bolivia #presidentluisarce #un #generalassambly #capitalism #sanctions #peru #presidentpedrocastillo #palestine #war #ukraine #warondrugs

Bolivia and Peru express concern over the situation of the Palestinian people and the war in Ukraine

The President of Bolivia, Luis Arce, and the President of Peru, Pedro Castillo, expressed their concern about the situation of the Palestinian people and the Russian invasion of Ukraine during

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