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Billions Of Rubles Needed To Secure Russian Museums
August 17, 2006
Some of the crowds that throng the Hermitage each day (ITAR-TASS)
He told a cabinet meeting that the recent theft of 221 artworks from Russia's world-famous State Hermitage Museum was "a powerful argument" for modernizing surveillance and security systems in museums across the country.
The son and husband of a former Hermitage curator have been charged in connection with the theft.
(AP, ITAR-TASS)