Abstract:
Дисертація присвячена дослідженню діяльності Національної комісії з питань повернення в Україну культурних цінностей (1992 р.), а згодом - її наступниці Державної служби контролю за переміщенням культурних цінностей через державний кордон України (2000 р.) в аспекті збереження культурної пам’яті. Розглянуто твори і колекції, набуті державою завдяки праці Комісії та Служби впродовж кінця ХХ - початку ХХІ століття внаслідок взаємодії з митними органами, силовими структурами, переговорних процесів і дипломатії у міжнародному розшуку та введення цих предметів у науковий обіг
у галузі історико-культурних цінностей.
Description:
The thesis’s subject is the study of National Commission’s activities
concerning the return of cultural valuables to Ukraine (1992), and in the future - the 20 activities of their successor, State Control Service for the movement of cultural valuables through the state border of Ukraine (2000), provided the retention of the
national memory. It is considered that the first state program of the Commission - «Returned names» (1996) was directed, first of all, to the gift to the independent Ukraine of the artistic heritage of emigrants, who were forced to leave their motherland. The second large-scale program of the Commission - «Cultural values of Ukraine. Losses. Ways of return» (1999) provided profitable international cooperation with the governments of Europe and United States of America, regarding of returning treasures to the owners of the country of origin. In addition, the service actively developed a cultural project «Cultural values of the Crimean Tatar people. Losses. Ways of return» (2004), focused on the restoration of the Bank of works, forms, traditional ornaments of the
indigenous peoples deported from the Crimea on 1944. It is revealed that the Commission and the Service were organized each year meetings of the permanent acting round table on strengthening the fight against the cultural property illegal traffic. These events were held with the participation of representatives of the Verkhovna Rada Committee on culture and spirituality, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine, the Ministry of Culture of Ukraine, the Central state archive of foreign Ukraine, the State Frontier Service of Ukraine, customs and law enforcement agencies, authorized Services, art experts. An art review ground works of the Commission and the Service are also connected with exhibitions, organized for scientific and practical events: the Scientific and Practical Symposium «Legal aspects of the cultural property restitution: theory and practice» (1996); the Round table «Return of the cultural property to Ukraine» (2009); The international interdepartmental conference on the prevention of the cultural property
illegal traffic (2008). In turn, the staff of the Commission and the Service were regular participants in scientific and practical tests on the restitution of cultural property abroad: in Washington, New York, Tartu, Minsk. We reviewed the works obtained by the state thanks to the activities of both the Commission and the Service during late 20th - early 21st century.