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PIOTROVSKY Mikhail Borisovich
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ПІОТРОВСЬКИЙ Михайло Борисович
ПИОТРОВСКИЙ Михаил Борисович
PIOTROVSKY Mikhail Borisovich

Date and place of birth
09.12.1944
Yerevan, Armenian SSR, USSR

Position
Soviet and Russian historian, orientalist, Arabist, Islamic scholar, museum organizer. Doctor of Historical Sciences, Professor, Director of the State Hermitage Museum, Dean of the Oriental Faculty of St. Petersburg State University (SPbGU), Member of the Presidium of the Russian Academy of Sciences., President of the Union of Museums of Russia

Tax Number
782506246034

Reasons
It organises illegal archaeological excavations on the territory of the temporarily occupied Crimean peninsula and provides financial support to numerous archaeological expeditions to the temporarily occupied Crimean peninsula, which include Hermitage employees. It is known that between 2014 and 2023, employees of the state-owned Hermitage Museum received more than 49 such permits on behalf of this organisation. With the organisational and financial support of this organisation, these employees annually carry out a number of episodes of illegal archaeological work.



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War & Sanctions 2024