Poland will formally ask Russia to return seven paintings from a Moscow museum that were looted by the Red Army during the second world war, the Polish culture minister has announced. He added that Russia was the only country among several approached to have failed to respond to Poland on the subject. “Traces of hundreds of thousands of items lead to the Russian Federation and to the former Soviet republics,” Gliński said. He added that Poland “will never stop searching for … cultural items that were looted” during the war. Since 2016, Poland has retrieved more than 600 looted cultural artefacts, but none of them from Russia, he said.

Source: The Guardian September 15, 2022 09:16 UTC