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‘Operation Pushkin’: Paris Trial Puts Spotlight on Rare-Book Heists

12 June 2026 at 05:01
One by one, valuable works by Russian masters like Pushkin and Gogol were disappearing from libraries across Europe. Now six defendants are being prosecuted.

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A sculpture of Alexander Pushkin made of paper at a bookstore in St. Petersburg, Russia, this week.
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