Russia refused to return to Poland paintings that were exported to the USSR during World War II. The Ministry of Culture of Russia stated that Warsaw has no legal basis to demand the return of works of art, the Zvezda propaganda channel reports..

The head of the department of museums of the Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation Vladislav Kononov said that the issues of restitution and the return of paintings - "

“All relevant international agreements on this subject were reached at the Yalta Conference in 1945, then additional agreements were concluded between the allied powers,” he said.

On January 18, the Polish Embassy in Moscow presented a list of Polish cultural objects stolen and destroyed by the USSR. According to the diplomatic mission, we are talking about seven paintings - “Madonna Glogovskaya” by Lucas Cranach the Elder (stored in the Hermitage collection), “Madonna and child and a parrot in the landscape” by an unknown artist, “Girl with a dove” by Antoine Pan, “Bird's yard” by Daniel Schulz.