Do not have time to appear in the press sensational message that Moldovan President Vladimir Voronin at a meeting with Russian President Dmitry Medvedev in St. Petersburg, Russia promised to convey the two paintings stolen from the Hermitage, as it turned out that the museum and are not suspected of this theft.

The State Hermitage Museum said that the works to the Hermitage do not have any relation. The point is that, as previously reported, found the picture painted by Vasily Polenov and Boris Iogansona, but in the Hermitage collection, and there were not pictures, written by those artists. In addition, Rossvyazohrankulture nothing is known about the theft in 2006 from the Hermitage paintings that Russia intends to return to Moldovan President Vladimir Voronin, Deputy Head of Office Anatoly Vilkov.

He recalled the history of a decade ago, when the Hermitage wanted to return the allegedly stolen from the picture. Then in the office received a request from law enforcement officials reportedly detained on Turkey by the work of Picasso painting, owned by the Hermitage. According to the Turkish side, the picture at first belonged to the collection Shchukina, then after the nationalization was transferred to one of the museums of Western art, and then, in the 1930's to the Hermitage. However, during the inspection and examination revealed that a fairly well-known portrait of Picasso's work all the time was in the Hermitage, and the Turkish police, was arrested on forgery rough with fake tags will not work on existing.

In addition, the Chief «antique» GUVD department of St. Petersburg and Leningrad region Vladislav Kirilov told RIA Novosti that the law enforcement authorities of St. Petersburg also did not know what the pictures in question. According to Kirillov, since December 2004 when he became chief of the department, the kidnapping of the Hermitage paintings there.

However, the officer of the Presidential Administration of Moldova said that during the special Moldovan police confiscated the painting when you try to sell them in Kishinev. Ministry of Internal Affairs of Moldova in the interests of the investigation has not yet announced details of the transaction. Full information about this case is expected to be released at the scheduled for June 10 press conference.

Maybe the president of Moldova to mull the Hermitage and the State Russian Museum. At the same time, the Russian museum reported that in 2006, from the museum collection is not missing a single picture. The representative of the museum added that the earlier pictures can be exported to an exhibition in another country, but not returned.

So far it is unclear where the painting was stolen Polenov and Iogansona and what the evidence that generally works were formerly in the Russian Museum collection, but does not come from the private collection and were probably illegally exported to overseas .

In Rossvyazohrankulturu has not yet received any requests from law enforcement agencies of Moldova with a request to identify the belongings of the detainees. In connection with the Russian side will show information requests were made, and after images of paintings will be held detainees examination to determine their authenticity and place of the possible theft.

It is hoped that in the near future, to be held in June 10 press conference the situation becomes clearer.

Source : www.echomsk.spb.ru , www.vesti.ru , www.rian.ru