More than 3,000 cases of cultural property smuggling from the Russian Federation have been recorded since 2020.

More than 3,000 cases of cultural property smuggling from the Russian Federation have been recorded since 2020.

Since 2020, Russian law enforcement agencies have registered over 3,000 cases of smuggling of items of cultural value, the FSB Public Relations Center (PRC) reported on Friday. "In total, since 2020, more than three thousand cases of smuggling of cultural property worth more than 8 billion rubles have been registered in the Russian Federation," the CSC said.