Russia says 160,000 exhibits missing from museums
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More than 160,000 artifacts have gone missing from Russian museums in the last 80 years, according to an inventory ordered by President Vladimir Putin, the government said on Tuesday.
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Ministers order review after figures show almost 800,000 empty places
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The Art Loss Register, a London database of 180,000 missing art works, is on the trail of two Picassos stolen in Paris last week. By the Associated Press.
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More than 22,000 antiquities survived 25 years of turmoil in Afghanistan in a secret vault. The discovery that they are safe and intact is a ray of hope in the quest to restore Afghanistan's rich cultural heritage. Photo gallery.
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Russian authorities pulled hundreds of opposition activists off buses and trains and detained them along with scores of others on Saturday ahead of a rare anti-government rally in Moscow, organizers said.
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Description: A religious icon missing from Russia for almost a century is returned to Moscow. Our Lady of Kazan represents the Virgin Mary and was at the center of a dispute between the Vatican and the Russian Orthodox Church.
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MOSCOW Aug. 26, 2004 - The recorders extracted from the wreckage of two planes that crashed nearly simultaneously have not revealed reliable information on the disasters&#39; causes, a top Russian official was quoted as saying Thursday.
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Russian authorities have canceled a major exhibition of French and Russian paintings set to open in London in January, fearing the art could be seized to settle private legal claims, a museum official said Wednesday.
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Nearly 70 ancient artifacts that Italy says were looted and sold to galleries abroad have been retrieved will now go on public display in a Rome exhibition, the minister of culture said on Tuesday.
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The FBI lost 160 laptop computers in less than four years, including at least 10 that contained highly sensitive classified information and one that held "personal identifying information on FBI personnel," according to a new report released today.
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Russian authorities have canceled a major exhibition of French and Russian paintings set to open in London in January, fearing authorities could seize the art to settle private legal claims, a Russian museum official said Wednesday.
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A bust of Russian President Vladimir Putin, illegally erected in northwest Russia, survived only 24 hours before being taken down and hauled away by police, regional officials said.
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Russia said Wednesday it was likely to cancel a landmark exhibition of Russian art in London because Britain had not guaranteed the paintings' return, adding to growing tensions between the two countries.
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Russian and Chinese rescue workers  found the bodies of two of six Russian tourists who have been  missing in China&#39;s vast far west for nearly two weeks, state  media reported on Saturday.
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Rescuers have recovered 102 bodies from  a Russian airliner which crashed on landing after a domestic  flight to Siberia on Sunday, the Emergencies Ministry said.
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Russian government says it will loan paintings from its museums for major London exhibition
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Hundreds of tourists from Europe and Scandinavia are among the missing and dead in southern Asia.