Archinect - News2024-05-04T22:56:42-04:00https://archinect.com/news/article/150085028/putin-pushes-for-strategic-art-museum-complex-in-annexed-crimea
Putin pushes for strategic art museum complex in annexed Crimea Alexander Walter2018-09-07T18:07:00-04:00>2018-09-11T11:42:43-04:00
<img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/35/35d5b598b43759871b5fd81907d9d07f.jpg?fit=crop&auto=compress%2Cformat&enlarge=true&w=1200" border="0" /><em><p>Vladimir Putin, the president of Russia, has ordered officials to speed up the construction of a cultural centre in Sevastopol, the historic naval capital of Crimea, which will include exhibition space for the State Hermitage Museum, the State Russian Museum and the State Tretyakov Gallery.
Russia annexed the Black Sea peninsula from Ukraine in 2014. In May this year, Putin inaugurated a $7.5bn bridge to link the Crimean city of Kerch with the Russian mainland.</p></em><br /><br /><!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/loose.dtd">
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https://archinect.com/news/article/106554869/eastern-ukraine-s-museums-told-to-hide-their-collections
Eastern Ukraine’s museums told to hide their collections Alexander Walter2014-08-14T13:12:00-04:00>2014-08-14T13:12:44-04:00
<img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/58/583571b44987a8c03ba78ca41e23e94f?fit=crop&auto=compress%2Cformat&enlarge=true&w=1200" border="0" /><em><p>Culture officials in the Luhansk and Donetsk regions in eastern Ukraine have ordered museums to put their most valuable pieces into storage, and some institutions have closed to the public, as fighting continues between pro-Russian separatists and Ukrainian government forces.
Ukraine’s culture ministry has also asked that the media refrain from “emphasising objects of cultural heritage” to avoid their being targeted [...].</p></em><br /><br /><!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/loose.dtd">
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