This is stated on the website of the Russian Foreign Ministry.
As Zakharova noted, the Russian side hoped that at least the cultural sphere would remain outside politics.
“Guided exclusively by political motives, the Dutch judges completely ignored the indisputable fact that the“ Scythian gold ”is the cultural and historical heritage of the peoples of the Crimean peninsula, on which these artifacts were found and which they never left.
The verdict of the Amsterdam Court of Appeal sets an extremely dangerous precedent, ”she said.
According to her, this decision undermines trust between museum communities in different countries and calls into question the future prospects of inter-museum cooperation, including between Russia and the Netherlands.
Earlier, the Amsterdam Court of Appeal, after several years of proceedings, ruled to transfer the Scythian gold to the ownership of Ukraine.
The head of Crimea, Sergei Aksyonov, said that the Russian Foreign Ministry and the Russian government are doing everything necessary to return the Scythian gold to the peninsula.
The Federation Council called the court's decision on Scythian gold a dangerous precedent.