Country Summary for RUSSIAN FEDERATION

“Cultural Property”: movable objects of material world that have historic, artistic, scientific or cultural meaning, without taking into consideration the time of their creation.  (Art. 5, No. 4804-1 of 2018). 

“Cultural Property With Special Significance”: cultural property that belongs, in accordance with the criteria set forth by the government of the Russian Federation, to a class of cultural property that has special historic, artistic, scientific or cultural meaning. (Art. 5, No. 4804-1 of 2018).

“Transferred Cultural Property”: cultural property that was transferred for the purpose of compensatory restitution from the territories of Germany and its former military allies – Bulgaria, Hungary, Italy, Romania and Finland to the territory of the Soviet Union …. currently located on the territory of the Russian Federation. (Art. 4, No. 64-FZ of 2018).

“Export of Cultural Property”: transfer of cultural property from the Russian Federation to foreign states, which are not members of the Eurasian Economic Union, with no requirement to transfer such cultural property back. (Art. 5, No. 4804-1 of 2018).

“Temporary Export of Cultural Property”: transfer of cultural property from the Russian Federation to foreign states, which are not members of Eurasian Economic Union, with the requirement to transfer such property back. (Art. 5, No. 4804-1 of 2018). 

“Collection of Cultural Property”: an aggregate of movable objects, uniform or selected due to a common feature independent of cultural property type of each such object, that are collected together and have a historic, artistic, scientific or cultural meaning. (Art. 5, No. 4804-1 of 2018).

Export of cultural property may be conducted by a physical person (for personal use), legal entity and sole proprietor. (Art. 1, No. 4804-1 of 2018).