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  • Hermitage deputy director placed under house arrest

    Hermitage deputy director placed under house arrest

    Mikhail Novikov, the deputy director of Saint Petersburg’s State Hermitage Museum, has been put under house arrest after a Moscow court charged him with suspected fraud in connection with construction projects at the museum, Sophia Kishkovsky of the Art Newspaper reports. The case may be part of a larger scandal involving the embezzlement of roughly $2…

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