Aivazovsky painting stolen from Moscow businessmanJuly 15, 2011 - 12:43 AMT PanARMENIAN.Net - Moscow police have detained a woman on suspicion of stealing a painting by famous seascape painter Ivan Aivazovsky she was reportedly restoring, a police source told Itar-Tass on Friday, July 15. According to the source, a businessman reported to police that he handed over to the woman Aivazovsky’s painting “Seashore. Calm. A Landscape with a Carriage and a Boat” estimated at about 18 million roubles. He failed to get the painting back after the restoration. So far the man has not produced any documents confirming the painting’s authenticity. The woman was detained on fraud charges. Police are taking efforts to find the painting, Itar-Tass reported. Top stories Paris Center Pompidou Musée National d’Art Moderne will host the screening of Sergei Parajanov’s "Triptych" on December 15. The creative crew of the Public TV had chosen 13-year-old Malena as a participant of this year's contest. She called on others to also suspend their accounts over the companies’ failure to tackle hate speech. Penderecki was known for his film scores, including for William Friedkin’s “The Exorcist”, Stanley Kubrick’s “The Shining”. Partner news | Russia clarifying reports on Baku’s alleged arms supply to Ukraine Russia says is carefully working to verify reports about alleged arms supplies from Azerbaijan to Ukraine Russia warns Armenia against “falling into West’s trap” Zakharova maintained, however, that anything that will benefit the people of Armenia can only be welcomed. CSTO: Armenia has not participated in secretariat’s work recently Recently Armenia has not participated in the work of the secretariat of the CSTO, Imangali Tasmagambetov said. Meeting with U.S., EU not against third parties, says Armenia The meeting scheduled for April 5 is dedicated to strengthening of the Armenia-EU-US cooperation, Yerevan added. |