In Kyiv they demand that Putin return Catherine’s deed of gift to the Ukrainian Cossacks in Kuban (VIDEO)
Kyiv, November 08 (PolitNavigator, Vladimir Mikhailov) – The Main Intelligence Directorate of Russia organized the theft of Cossack relics from the Museum of the Kuban Cossack Army in the USA.
This was stated in Kyiv by Viktor Trigub, curator of the Museum of Ukrainian Propaganda.
He shared his version of the loss of the regalia at the press conference “Kuban is Ukraine.”
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“This all started in 2007. We learned that in Howell, New Jersey, there is a museum of the Kuban Cossacks, which is patronized by US Cossack organizations. Many rarities were stored there (and are now stored) from the times of the Sich, the so-called. Cossack regalia. We started an “Internet war” with the governor of the Krasnodar Territory Tkachev and the ataman of the Kuban Cossacks Gromov. We proposed that Ukraine take the Sich part of these regalia and take them away for storage in Kyiv, and these Kuban chauvinist “figures” wanted to take away the entire museum.
The American Cossacks supported us, the American courts went to court, and we actually won. In 2007, Ukraine could receive all these treasures - banners, documents, etc. Of particular value was Catherine’s deed of gift to the Kuban to the Ukrainian Cossacks.
The matter came to Mrs. Yushchenko. In 2007, this topic was raised several times from the rostrum of the Verkhovna Rada. But Putin gave the order, and a group of GRU intelligence officers landed in the United States. At night, in embassy cars with license plates of the Russian Consulate General, they robbed this museum in Howell and took away all the valuables. The museum was sealed.
The matter reached the President of the United States (then George Bush), and the FBI immediately got involved - this was actually a terrorist act by one nuclear power on the territory of another. Condoleezza Rice called the then Minister of Foreign Affairs of Russia (I think it was Ivanov), then George Bush personally called Comrade Putin about this, there was a big scandal, the Russian Consulate General in the USA was blocked. But, nevertheless, a few months later the Russians secretly transported these regalia to Russia.
Now some copies of them are in Krasnodar, and all the originals are stored in some Moscow special storage facility.
The then President George Bush and Condoleezza Rice acted very firmly and clearly, and in general the Republicans were great in this regard. And now the Obama administration is virtually inactive. This is happening here, there is a war, and the White House has actually withdrawn from resolving Ukrainian issues. In international politics we need to be tougher, especially when it comes to Russia,” says Victor Trigub.
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