“By March 3, an opportunity has been given to all parties to send their objections,” Tatyana Umrikhina, director of the East Crimean Historical and Cultural Museum-Reserve, quoted Interfax as saying.

She clarified that a trial date has not yet been set.

Earlier, the head of the State Hermitage Mikhail Piotrovsky in an interview with the FAN commented on the situation around Scythian gold.

According to him, time is needed for the return of Crimean antiquities.

In September, it was reported that Crimean museums sent new evidence to the Amsterdam Court of Appeal about the ownership of the Scythian gold collection.

A collection of Scythian gold was exported from Crimea to an exhibition at the Allard Pearson Museum in Amsterdam in 2014. After the Crimea became part of Russia, both the peninsula museums and Ukraine claimed their rights to gold.