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Six Georgians Sentenced in France For Stealing Rare Russian Classics From Libraries

By Civil.ge

Six Georgian nationals, five men and a woman, have been sentenced to up to seven years in prison by a French court over stealing rare editions of 19th-century Russian literary classics from French libraries, French media reported on June 13. The stolen books, worth millions in total, included works by Alexander Pushkin, Nikolai Gogol, and …