{"id":55548,"date":"2026-03-18T12:47:32","date_gmt":"2026-03-18T12:47:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/?p=55548"},"modified":"2026-03-18T12:47:38","modified_gmt":"2026-03-18T12:47:38","slug":"poland-decides-to-extradite-russian-archaeologist-to-ukraine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/?p=55548","title":{"rendered":"Poland decides to extradite Russian archaeologist to Ukraine"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">(Reuters)    <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">WARSAW, March 18 &#8211; A Warsaw court decided on Wednesday that Russian \u200barchaeologist Alexander B. should be extradited to Ukraine, where \u200che is accused of involvement in unauthorised excavation and plundering historical artefacts in Crimea, his lawyer said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Poland&#8217;s decision to arrest the \u200barchaeologist at Ukraine&#8217;s request in December provoked a \u200bfurious reaction from Russia, with the Kremlin accusing Poland of &#8220;legal \u2060tyranny&#8221;. In January, Russia&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/europe\/russia-summons-polish-ambassador-over-detention-archaeologist-2026-01-13\/\">summoned the Polish ambassador<\/a>&nbsp;to demand \u200bhis release.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Alexander B., whose name could not be revealed \u200bunder Polish privacy laws, was an employee of the State Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg, the Russian Foreign Ministry said in December.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Prosecutor&#8217;s \u200bOffice of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea, now located \u200bin the Ukrainian city of Kherson following Russia&#8217;s seizure and annexation \u200cof \u2060the peninsula from Ukraine, has previously said Alexander B.&#8217;s team conducted unauthorised excavations in the ancient city of Myrmekion in the Kerch area, causing damage of over 200 million \u200bhryvnias ($4.55 million).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ukraine also \u200bsays Alexander \u2060B.&#8217;s team seized 30 gold coins, of which 26 were inscribed with the name \u200bof Alexander the Great and four were minted \u200bduring \u2060the reign of his brother Philip III Arrhidaeus.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Reuters) WARSAW, March 18 &#8211; A Warsaw court decided on Wednesday that Russian \u200barchaeologist Alexander B. should be extradited to Ukraine, where \u200che is accused of involvement in unauthorised excavation and plundering historical artefacts in Crimea, his lawyer said. Poland&#8217;s decision to arrest the \u200barchaeologist at Ukraine&#8217;s request in December provoked a \u200bfurious reaction from Russia, with the Kremlin accusing Poland of &#8220;legal \u2060tyranny&#8221;. In January, Russia&nbsp;summoned the Polish ambassador&nbsp;to demand \u200bhis release. Alexander B., whose name could not be revealed \u200bunder Polish privacy laws, was an employee of the State Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg, the Russian Foreign Ministry&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":55549,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55548","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-in-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55548","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=55548"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55548\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55550,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55548\/revisions\/55550"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/55549"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}