Russian propaganda media disseminate publications in which the recent decision of the Supreme Court of the Netherlands on the return of the collection “Crimea - a golden island in the Black Sea” to Ukraine is described not only as “a complete degradation of the system of international law in Europe”, but also as due to the “Nazi inclinations” of the countries EU and Ukraine. In particular, Russian “historians” claim that the Scythian gold is returned to Ukraine only “for occult reasons”, because according to their version, Ukraine and Europe are “collecting magical artifacts” in order to defeat Russia “with their help” . It's fake.

Analysts of the StopFake project drew attention to it. They found out that Russian narratives based on the collection “Crimea - a golden island in the Black Sea” have evolved from theses like “Russia has nothing to do with it” to statements about “breaking the bottom in the European judicial system”. Now propagandists have moved on to spreading frank conspiracy theories about this. In a comment to StopFake, Evelina Kravchenko, senior researcher at the Institute of Archeology of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, emphasized that this approach is not new and that these theses do not explain the situation with the collection in an effective way.

By spreading such stories, propagandists want to justify the failure of the gold situation, raise doubts about whether it can be true, what is not, and also distort the historical context of the issue. Detector Media explained how Russian propaganda instrumentalizes the history of Ukraine.