Stolen or thrown away: As the Russian Federation and the ROC destroyed ancient Chersonese in Crimea - investigation (photo)

The occupying authorities removed from the reserve "Chersonese Tavriysky" a unique ceiling, journalists said. The territory of the ancient settlement was cemented, and 15 thousand artifacts were taken to Russia. Prior to the occupation of 2014, the Russian authorities did not let archaeologists into the territory of the military unit, which occupied the territory of ancient Chersonese.

During the ten years of the occupation of the Russian Federation sent thousands of ancient Greek exhibits to Russian museums, some of the ancient artifacts - buried in the ground or took out to the landfill. The Crimean Chersonese was built by the palaces of the Russian Orthodox Church (ROC), told on the portal "Radio Freedom".

Journalists summed up open information about how Russia destroyed ancient Chersonese: how instead of the area where archaeologists were to work, a multi -hectare complex appeared, built up by pseudo -religious structures. It turned out that the Russian company "Voenstrovy" was engaged in the construction of the RPC priest, close to the President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin. The investigation of journalists was in two directions.

The first direction was to build, the second - the abduction or destruction of artifacts of the Kherson settlement. As they created the "New Chersonese" the idea of ​​transforming Chersonese into something else was the first to express Vladimir Putin in 2015, he recalled in the article. Since then, 12 hectares have been built near or in the settlement.

On the place where archaeologists were to work, pseudo -toe style buildings appeared: museums, housing for pilgrims and tourists, amphitheater, "Art School", ROC church, Artek camp, pedestrian tracks and fountains, revived the men's monastery . An employee of the Institute of Archeology of the NAS of Ukraine Evelyn Kravchenko said that Russian archaeologists first conducted an imitation of the examination. To do this, they dug for seven months on 8 hectares to a depth of 14 meters.

After that, they stated that they found all ancient things and could be built. "In fact, they just pulled things out of the earth and demolished all the architectural remains. This is no different from the actions of ordinary black archaeologists," she said.

The Project and Development is engaged in the "My History" Support Fund "My History", this Russian institution is funded by Gazprom, and is managed : In the media, it is called this Russian priest that has proposed a project of development, which was destroyed by Kravchenko "Reliable" and will help to take out all the valuables when the Russian Federation has to flee from the Crimea. And this nearby circle uses the situation to, roughly speaking, stuff pockets, "she said.

How the historical artifacts were stolen and destroyed in the article, how the Foundation was engaged in the" improvement " Buildings, for example, "Divine School", told journalists. For example, UNESCO would not protest against obvious violations. Chersonese we had a well -groomed world -class monument. In fact, his acceptance under the protection of UNESCO indicates that his condition was at the level of monuments of world importance, "she said.