“Russia: $50 Million Art and Gem Theft”

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Russia: $50 Million Art and Gem Theft Posted: 14 Jan 2011 09:11 PM PST Russia: $50 Million Art and Gem Theft Saturday, January 15, 2011 By ANDREW E. KRAMER, The New York Times The owner of a chain of jewelry stores lost about $50 million worth of paintings, diamonds and antiques in one of the more brazen recent thefts at country homes of the wealthy outside of Moscow. The burglars tied up security guards, retrieved keys from a caretaker's house and made off with paintings by the 19th-century Russian masters Ilya Repin, Ivan Shishkin and Ivan Aivazovsky, Russian television news reported. Their owner, Aleksandr Tarantsev, said the paintings were insured. This article originally appeared in The New York Times. First published on January 15, 2011 at 12:01 am This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service — if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read our FAQ page at fivefilters.org/content-only/faq.php Five Filters featured site: So, Why is Wikileaks a Good Thing Again?.

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