A court in St. Petersburg, Russia’s second largest city, sentenced Thursday a defendant to five years in prison for the theft of 77 exhibits from the Hermitage Museum, the RIA-Novosti news agency reports.
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March 15, 2007A painting that was stolen from Russia’s Hermitage Museum in 2001 was returned Wednesday to the office of Gennady Zyuganov, leader of the country’s Communist Party.
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December 21, 2006
One of Russia’s most respected cultural custodians yesterday urged gas giant OAO Gazprom to drop its plans to build a 300-metre-high skyscraper in St. Petersburg’s historic centre.
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