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Two Arrested In Russian Museum Theft
August 05, 2006
St. Petersburg's Hermitage museum (file photo) (epa)
accused of involvement in the theft of jewelry, silverware, and
enameled objects from the State Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg.
The Interfax and ITAR-TASS news agencies quoted unidentified police sources as saying that the two suspects could help establish the location of about 70 of the stolen museum items.
The disappearance of 221 objects worth about $5 million was discovered during a recent inventory.
(AP, AFP)