Leonid Bershidsky: Stolen art hampers Ukraine’s EU progress
Director of the Westfries Museum Ad Geerdink (L), Dutch art historian and art detective Arthur Brand (C) and Hoorn mayor Yvonne van Mastrigt (R) give a press conference on artworks stolen from the museum in 2005, in Hoorn on Dec. 7.
A bizarre episode involving two dozen stolen paintings by old Dutch masters shows how far Ukraine still has to go before it becomes a European nation - and explains why many Dutch people have misgivings about ratifying Ukraine's association agreement with the European Union.
