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Stolen Russian Painting Returned Via Communists

Communist Party leader Gennady Zyuganov (file photo) (epa)

Communist Party leader Gennady Zyuganov (file photo) (epa)

December 20, 2006 -- A painting believed to have been stolen five years ago from the Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg has been handed over to the leader of the Russian Communist Party, Gennady Zyuganov.

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December 20, 2006


Zyuganov said an unknown person gave the painting by 19th-century French artist Jean-Leon Gerome to one of his aides after an anonymous phone call earlier on December 19.


The painting is estimated to be worth around $1 million.


Experts from the Culture Ministry have been called in to verify the authenticity of the painting.


(Interfax, gazeta.ru)

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