RUSSIAN GOVERNMENT BACKS LAWSUIT AGAINST WARSAW MUSEUM

A Russian woman is suing Poland’s National Museum in Warsaw over a collection of 103 paintings valued at several million dollars, Mosnews reports. Yelena Orlova-Glonbska claims that the collection, which includes masterpieces by Rembrandt, Rubens, Tintoretto, and van Dyck, belonged to her uncle, Yan Poplavsky. A Russian regional court ruled that the collection indeed belonged to Poplavsky, and that Orlova-Glonbska was his heiress. After the ruling, Russia’s Foreign Ministry gave its backing to Orlova-Glonbska in her lawsuit against the Warsaw museum.