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” the artwork in the shipments are subject to EU sanctions on Russia and Belarus, according to Finland’s customs agency, which is tasked with enforcing the sanctions and said the Finnish Ministry for Foreign Affairs confirmed that the EU list of sanctions contains a section pertaining to artwork.
The works are insured for a combined $46 million, the Finnish customs agency said, but declined to name how many pieces were included in the three shipments, saying only that they included paintings and sculpture., located on the border between Finland and Russia, according to Finnish officials. The seized works include pieces that were lent out by Russian institutions for display at two Italian museums and one museum in Japan, the state-owned Russian news agency TASS reported., the State Tretyakov Gallery, the State Museum of the East and the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts in Moscow and the Tsarskoye Selo – the former ruling Romanov’s summer estate – the Pavlovsk Palace and the Gatchina Palace in St. Petersburg, according to TASS.
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