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Anton Nadtocheev. Small Victory // Version

The Moscow Arbitration Court dismissed the proceedings on the application of the Federal Tax Service of Russia to declare the International Center of the Roerichs bankrupt. The process was completed through settlement by the parties. On July 27, 2020, the Arbitration Court of Moscow approved the settlement agreement concluded between the Inspectorate of the Federal Tax Service of Russia No. 19 (Moscow) and the International Center of the Roerichs (ICR),
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Yuri Samodurov: The Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts acts unjustly towards the Roerichs’ heritage // Noviye Izvestiya

  The former building of the International Center of the Roerichs (ICR) is transferred to The Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts. In his blog, rights defender Yuri Samodurov assessed this information in the light of moral standards: “I believe that the readers interested in the destiny of the artistic legacy and archive of the Roerich family, transferred to Russia to the Soviet Roerich Foundation (the International Center of the Roerichs) by
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On the Verge of Bankruptcy

Anton Nadtocheev Tax Inspectorate demands 59 million rubles from the International Center of the Roerichs for paintings donated by the patron The ICR is in distress for the Federal Tax Service is claiming payment of 59 million rubles, which was not paid by the organization as a tax on the paintings donated by the patrons of the arts. If the amount is not found within the prescribed period, the ICR
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EXPERIMENT WITH HERITAGE

Ministry of Culture initiated liquidation of the International Center of the Roerichs Extremism charges, tax claims were exploited here. President Putin was personally involved in the operation. Is this a retribution for investigating the disappearance of Roerich paintings from the State Museum of Oriental Art? Late in the evening of April 28, 2017, there happened a fuss in the Lopukhins’ Estate in Znamensky Lane, literally opposite the Cathedral of Christ
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The Roerichs are evicted. The Ministry of Culture gets rid of the Memorial with the ashes of the Roerichs

The newspaper Novie Izvestia November, 13th, 2018 The Ministry of Culture ordered to remove the memorial with the ashes of the family of the great Russian artists from the Lopoukhins' estate in Moscow. According to the officials, the sculptures and busts are of no legal  value. For three years the Museum of the Roerichs is torn apart by conflicts.  The collectible treasures, meanwhile, are necessary to be saved from fungus.
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The Uncertain Future of the Enlightenment Stupa in Moscow // Buddhistdoor Global

By Lyudmila Klasanova                                Buddhistdoor Global, 2018-10-24 The Enlightenment Stupa in Moscow, also known as the Three Jewels Stupa, was consecrated on 18 June 2008 on the grounds of Lopoukhin Mansion, where the International Center of the Roerichs and its non-governmental museum named after the Russian artist, scholar, thinker, and public figure Nicholas Roerich (1874–1947) were located until 28 April 2017. The stupa was built on the initiative of and with the
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A Buddhist stupa is dying in Moscow. How officials ignore the decisions of President Vladimir Putin

The Moscow Buddhists are in despair. For a year now they have not been able to access the Buddhist stupa of the “Three Jewels”, which is located not far from the Kremlin on the territory of the old Lopukhins' estate in Maly Znamensky Lane. In 2017, on April 28, the estate was transferred to the State Museum of Oriental Art with the support of the Ministry of Culture.   Recently, mass disappearances of cultural valuables, documents and personal belongings of
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Lyubov Khomenok. Roerichs’ Heritage is Plundered! // Blog “Cont”

Attention! Uncontrolled plundering of the Roerichs’ heritage, handed over by Svetoslav Roerich and other donors to the International Center of the Roerichs (ICR), began. It began under a cloak of silence of cultural and scientific community, with full connivance, and often with the approval of state officials. We have already stated more than once that the destruction of the non-governmental Nicholas Roerich museum, which is an internal subdivision of the
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Yuri Samodurov:“Discrimination of the Staff of the Non-Governmental Museum Named after Nicholas Roerich Is Unfair and Illegal!”

I wish to draw attention of cultural figures, journalists, human rights activists and other readers to the fate of the Non-Governmental Museum Named after Nicholas Roerich and talk about what has not even be talked or written. Destructing the Non-Governmental Museum Named after Nicholas Roerich of the International Center of the Roerichs (hereinafter referred to as the ICR) by the Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation is a gross
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“The first impression with what I saw is the resemblance to the destruction of the Yasnaya Polyana by German Nazis.” What happened to the Center of the Roerichs // “Sobesednik”

The Center of the Roerichs claims about the real rout that was caused in the museum after it passed under the control of the state. On April 28, 2017, the International Center of the Roerichs (the ICR) was seized, sealed, security was lined up near the Lopoukhins' estate, where the ICR was located. All the workers of the center were evicted. The premises, the art collection, the Roerichs' archive, the
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The Ministry of Culture nationalized the property of the non-governmental Museum named after Nicholas Roerich // Novye Izvestia

On January 30, 2018, the press conference initiated by the International Centre of the Roerichs took place at the press centre of Rosbalt Information Agency. One of the crucial topics discussed during the meeting was the illegal seizure of the Museum by the Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation and its subordinate - the State Museum of Oriental Art. The enfilade inside the museum before the seizure The same
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Mikhail Fedotov and Andrei Babushkin visited the Nicholas Roerich Museum building in Moscow, sealed after the “armed capture”

April 29th,  2017 Chairman of the Council for Civil Society and Human Rights under the President of Russia Mikhail Fedotov and the Council member Andrei Babushkin visited the Nicholas Roerich Museum, located at the Lopukhin's estate on Maly Znamensky Lane in Moscow. One day before the visit,  the building had been captured by armed personnel. The moment of seizure was witnessed by a member of the HRC, Ivan Zasursky. According
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Member of the Human Rights Council Ivan Zasursky witnessed the armed capture of the Nicholas Roerich Museum

April 29th,  2017 Member of the Council for Civil Society and Human Rights under the President of Russia Ivan Zasursky witnessed attempts of the armed capture of the Museum named after Nicholas Roerich. He recorded all the details on video. The armed people, accompanied by the police, entered the museum and refused to leave it, arguing this by a court decision, although the sentence has not come into force yet.
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Anti-cultural activity of the Ministry of Culture’s leadership is a shame for Russia

It is hard to amaze us with an epidemic of corruption among Russian officials. Fr om time to time the high-profile corruption scandals come to light. On the one part they give hope to the society that Authorities are not determined to put up with this “pesthole” of modern civilization, but on the other part they testify that the basis of vertical of power in Russia relies on people who
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Congress of Intellectuals Declaration: Stop destruction of the International Centre of the Roerichs

A number of recent events connected with the International Centre of the Roerichs (ICR) and its Museum named after Nicholas Roerich should receive attention of the community as they present an issue of great concern. On 7 March 2017 a search was conducted at the Museum, which resulted in seizure of a large number of paintings and other objects as well as the Soviet Roerich Foundation archives. Together with about
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“We were allowed to the toilet only under escort” – The Report from the Center of the Roerichs after the pogrom // Novie Izvestiya

Novie Izvestiya.  15.03.2017. A week has passed since the International Center of the Roerichs (ICR) was searched. About 200 exhibits were taken from the museum. The siloviki* made a real pogrom in the ICR. The paintings were packed and transported with a large number of irregularities. The ICR employees were kept in the Center for almost 17 hours. The museum community is still silent. The leadership of the International Center
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Why do “the specialists in the Buddhism” need the power support of Russian FSB (Federal Security Service)? // Novaya Gazeta

Valery Shiryaev, Novaya Gazeta 12.03.2017 What is really behind the searches at the International Center of the Roerichs. On 11 March, we published the article “The patron fled, the case lost, the searches conducted" – about the scandal around the Roerich Museum. Valery Shiryaev strongly disagree with the statement that the banker Bulochnik’s ‘laundering activity’ served as the only cause for searches, and he offers his perspective on the situation.
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Search procedures in the Museum of the ICR will be appealed in court // INTERFAX

Moscow. March 11. INTERFAX.RU – the International Centre of the Roerichs (ICR) will appeal in court against the search procedures in its Museum and the withdrawal of works of art, the vice-president of the ICR Alexander Stetsenko informed Interfax. "Unclear, why we are illegally tied to criminal case of Master-Bank, we are not involved in it. I suppose that somebody wants us to be involved in it as suspects. It
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Did Medinsky «rob» the Museum of the Roerichs? // The Morning News

2017-03-10  The Morning News Author: Maxim Gurkin 200 exhibits were transferred to the State Museum of Oriental Art with the participation of Special Police Force (OMON). What is the further destiny of the Roerich’s heritage? On March 7 the fighters of the Special Police Force stormed the International Centre of the Roerichs (ICR). As a result, about 200 paintings were seized and transferred to the State Museum of Oriental Art
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Vice-president of the International Centre of the Roerichs: “The Ministry of Culture dreams to destroy us” // Novie Izvestiya

March 9, Novie Izvestiya. Now the Moscow Museum named after Nicholas Roerich works on its normal schedule. Employees decide how to rebuild the exposition as the security forces took away about 200 works of art. The vice-president of the International Centre of the Roerichs Alexander Stetsenko is sure that this intrusion was guided by the management of the Ministry of Culture. The Ministry does not give any answer. Did you know