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US gives Russia back Czar’s stolen medallion (AP)

March 4th, 2010

U.S Ambassador to Russia John Beyrle and a senior member of the mass media department of the Investigative Committee at the Prosecutor's Office Vladimir Markin, hold the medallion during a ceremony of returning to Russia this valuable artifact, stolen from State Hermitage in St. Petersburg, at the U.S. Ambassador's Spaso House residence in Moscow, Thursday, March 4, 2010. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko)AP - The U.S. Ambassador to Russia returned a stolen silver medallion that belonged to the last Russian czar to Moscow Thursday after it was recovered from an online auction by U.S. investigators.


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