St. Petersburg customs officials found a picture of the apples
 

The seaport of St. Petersburg customs officials found a truck arrived from Germany pictures with labels auctions Sotheby's and Christie's, silverware, antique porcelain and processed diamonds. Objects, according to "Gazeta.ru," referring to the press-secretary of the Baltic Customs, were hidden in the back among the boxes of apples and in the casing interior. The machine arrived in St. Petersburg without a driver.
Five paintings, according to customs officials, dated XVII-XIX centuries. Some of the work belongs to the Dutch painter. According to the newspaper "MP7", a painting signed by the name "Schiller", the second - "Paul Brandt". Other work has not yet been identified. Among the findings was also a Japanese sword katana XIII century, Japanese porcelain vases and other items.
Cost found in the casing interior diamond is more than 1,3 million rubles.
(Lenta.ru)

Oh, something's wrong! Not such believe I'm hasty message. Although the value of diamonds have already calculated:)

Th-somehow not enough ..

With customs asked for landing.
 

03.06.2009
At a Monday meeting of the Presidium of the Government of Prime Minister Vladimir Putin responded negatively on the activities of Customs, which is unable to effectively prevent the entry of contraband into the country. Finally disillusioned with the State Customs Committee (SCC), the prime task of protecting the economic interests of the country's Interior Ministry, FSB and Prosecutor General's Office

Even more dramatic and even biting ratings awarded heads of customs. True, they are not criticized the prime time for the breakdown, but for the lack of results in the fight against smuggling.

"The struggle seems to be conducted and the results of little", - Putin mused aloud. Smuggling along with counterfeit products still occupy more than 40%of the domestic market. However, the most objective indicator of the effectiveness of customs authorities, in understanding the prime minister, not statistics, and criminal cases and court judgments against exposed as smugglers. In particular, their landing in jail. «No landings. Several years ago I broke up the entire leadership of Customs, and the result? » - confessed to Putin's own shortcomings.

Yesterday, however, to orgvyvodov against the current leadership of SCC is not reached. Those responsible were not even mentioned by name. However, the ability to cope with their own customs smuggling Putin no longer believes, and therefore instructed to investigate such crimes FSB, the Interior Ministry and Prosecutor General's Office. From security officials require in the near future to improve the situation not only at the customs border, but also in the fight against the underground shops. (c)
http://www.tks.ru/reviews/2009/06/03/01

Actually, judging by press reports and the Internet, the cases of art theft increased. There are no crises affected:) Here's a fresh news:
from the Paris museum Picasso stolen notebook
From the National Picasso Museum in Paris abducted notebook with drawings by Pablo Picasso, reports AFP. The cost of the missing exhibits are estimated at seven to ten million euros.
According to the police, the loss found in the morning on June 9. It remains to what period of life of Pablo Picasso's sketches include a stolen notebook.
The Picasso Museum is located in the Marais quarter of Paris. In the collection of the museum 203 paintings by Picasso, 1500 drawings and 58 notebooks and notebooks with sketches, as well as sculptures and engravings. In addition, in the same museum preserves paintings by Cezanne, Matisse and other artists from the personal collection of Pablo Picasso.

Yesterday afternoon (June 9), one of the visitors to the Picasso Museum in Paris, approached the shelf, attached to the wall, somehow raised the glass, took the album with 33 pencil sketches of the artist and left . Stolen album with the great works by Pablo Picasso worth about eight million euros. Raise the glass, as the administration says the museum is only possible with the help of special tools. Which, apparently, was the perpetrator. But the monitoring system in the hall was not, therefore, the identity of the man who led the treasure will be very difficult.

In any case inform: if you see someone's album size 16x24 cm, dated 1917-1924 years, in a red cover with gold inscription «Album» and pictures of naked women inside - let me know the Paris police. (c)

Prenepremenno! :)

You also have the experience to return the looted museum, you also at the forum were talking about Vrubel.

I was disappointed in this ... No Refunds will be no more! :)

"Do not give the enemy a single inch of our land". "Stalin.