The President of the Russian Parliament of Crimea "declared war" on the Netherlands, intends to come "for his own"

The newspaper of the Crimean Parliament published the comment of the President of the Russian Parliament of Crimea, Vladimir Konstantinov, regarding the decision of the Supreme Court of the Netherlands, which recently rejected the cassation appeal of the Crimean museums and confirmed the decision of the Amsterdam Court of Appeal from October 2021 and ruled that the Allard Pearson Museum must hand over the collection of "Scythian gold" to the state of Ukraine, not to the museums of Crimea.

Konstantinov's comment is full of insults and accusations. The fact is that Konstantinov is obviously used to the fact that the courts in Crimea work at the behest of the government, so he hoped that the European court could be influenced as well, as the lawyers assured him. Therefore, Crimea has been trying to influence the court's decision about "Scythian gold" for a long time. Before the decisions of the Dutch courts, they published materials with their views, claims, hired lawyers who made public requests to the courts in advance, planned what measures Russia could take to keep the gold of the Scythians in any case. Crimean representatives of the State Duma of Russia and the local parliament were particularly active in seeking a favorable decision from the courts. And the special representative of the President of Russia for international cultural cooperation, Mikhail Shvidkoi, suggested that the trial be prolonged in every possible way, given that "the longer the hearing, the greater the chances that justice will prevail, and the "Scythian gold" from the Crimean museums to return to Crimea... Moreover, publications with claims of "Scythian gold" were almost always accompanied by an illustration showing a "Scythian pectoral", the most significant artifact of "Scythian gold", which was not generally found in Crimea and has no connection with Crimean museums .
Attempts to influence the court by secret methods by Russia have also been recorded. In this regard, Ukrainian lawyers had to file a motion to disqualify the judge due to the disclosure of additional materials testifying to the judge's bias and ties to Russia. On October 28, 2020, the Court of Appeal in Amsterdam made a decision to dismiss the judge.
Let us recall that the essence of the dispute was that the exhibition "Crimea: Gold and Secrets of the Black Sea", which included more than 500 exhibits from several museums of Crimea, was opened at the Allard Pearson Archaeological Museum in Amsterdam on February 7. until August 31, 2014. However, due to the Russian annexation of Crimea, the exhibits were not returned to Crimea. Four Crimean museums have filed a class-action lawsuit against the Allard Pearson Museum for the return of exhibits. At the same time, the Ukrainian side proved that the artifacts are not the property of the museum, but belong to the state of Ukraine.

The museum in the Netherlands has decided not to hand over the exhibits until a decision is made by the competent judge or an agreement between the parties. On December 14, 2016, the District Court of Amsterdam decided to return the exhibits to the owner state - Ukraine. On March 28, 2017, the Court of Appeal of Amsterdam received the appeal of representatives of Crimean museums against the court's decision on "Scythian gold". And now the dispute has been put to an end. The Supreme Court recognized that the evidence, as before, belongs to Ukraine. In Kiev, they expect the exhibits to return to Ukraine and said that they will be transferred to the museums of Crimea, but ... after the de-occupation of the peninsula and the transition of Crimea back under the jurisdiction of Ukraine. It is quite logical.
The commentary of the newspaper itself and Konstantinov was given in an increasingly emotional tone and is completely fictional, it does not correspond to reality, such as "Ukraine occupied by the Banders declared its rights to what never belonged to it". Although the entire collection legally belonged to Ukraine. The consideration of the case before the courts in the Netherlands was called a "brazen and unprincipled robbery of Crimea", the trial was "absurd". Nonsensical statements like "in Kiev for some reason decided that Scythians, Sarmatians, Mongolo-Tatars are Ukrainians and therefore all historical artifacts found in Crimea belong to Ukraine." Strange, but why did they decide in Crimea that the Scythians, Sarmatians, Mongolo-Tatars are Russian, and all the artifacts belong to Russia?
Commenting on the Court's decision, Konstantinov said that "a few years ago, no one would have believed in the possibility of such a decision. This is not an honest international court, but a form of piracy..." Perhaps the speaker would not have spoken so hastily if he remembered that in recent history, Russian oligarchs, having lost faith in Russian justice, always sought justice in European courts. If only he returned "a few years ago", he would know that it is the European courts that are recognized as a confirmation of the fairness of international law, in contrast to the Russian courts, including those in Crimea, which are controlled by the Kremlin and make political judgments.
For some reason, the speaker is not ashamed even now, after a lot of evidence was published in the world that the dam of the Kahovska HPP was blown up by a Russian sabotage group, the only one that had access to it in the occupied territory, they blame it... Dutch courts, claiming that "then why is the whole world, including the Netherlands, not reacting to the disaster at the Kahovo HPP, when the entire region was under water, to the losses caused by this crime of the Kiev junta in the Kherson region, in the Crimea, to the whole world, including the Netherlands... "
Why are they not responding? On the contrary, everything the speaker is asking for has already been done. Here: The European Parliament condemned "Russia's demolition of the Kahovskaya HPP dam, which led to widespread flooding, ecological disaster and ecocide in Ukraine and constitutes a war crime... Out of 505 MEPs, 425 votes supported the resolution... MEPs called on the European Commission and countries of the European Union... to support the investigation of the International Criminal Court in the case of the destruction of the Kahovskaya HPP dam". Well wait, there will be a trial.
For the speaker, international law is "rules that no one issued and are not understandable", court decisions are "disgusting and baseless", judges are "Dutch ignoramuses", who make "baseless decisions", the court is "a banal court that accepts what it wants". … Ukraine is a "geopolitical sewer".
Ukraine is "a criminal country, an exiled country, living its last days." Only for some reason in the world these words refer more to Russia itself.
Moreover, the speaker accused the Netherlands of robbery: “There is trivial robbery. The robbers got hold of our unique, expensive collection, and now they have decided to hand it over to their accomplices. However, most likely they will not transfer the collection to Ukraine, even though they have decided. But most importantly, they believed that the appropriation of any property belonging to Russia would not pose any difficulty to them..." Konstantinov apparently forgot that the real robbery was the seizure of most of the exhibits from Kherson and other museums by the Russian army, the seizure of grain, metal, factory equipment, even medical equipment from the temporarily occupied territories of Ukraine. Or maybe Russia has already settled with the Netherlands for the downed plane MH-17?
Then Konstantinov is even more categorical: "I am convinced that they will leave our collection in the Netherlands, and after a while they will present it as their own, as they do with the artifacts looted during the colonial past..."
The paper states that "Vladimir Konstantinov noted that this illegal decision will be placed on the list of Crimea's financial claims against Ukraine and the West." At the same time, Vladimir Konstantinov switches to direct threats: "And we will come to Amsterdam to get ours." Let them wait and prepare!" It seems to me that this is at least the suggestion of a diplomatic demarche from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Netherlands regarding general, baseless accusations and real threats of war to the whole country.
Konstantinov recalls Otto Bismarck's call "to deal fairly with the Russians, because sooner or later the Russians will always get their way, and you will not be able to protect yourself from them with any decrees". I forgot, apparently, that Bismarck had in mind that the Russians must do business honestly and then honesty will be the answer to honesty, and if things are built on lies, as in this case, then Bismarck has nothing to do with it.
And here's what's unclear. International relations have always been the most complex, responsible, accurate and sensitive sphere of world politics. Their participants often did not dare to allow themselves even a little emotional conversation, all expressions are precisely formulated, checked and responsible. Why today, at least in Russia and its occupied Crimea, are irresponsible and ignorant people who commit evil and hope that they will not have to answer for their words and deeds accepted into international relations?