MOSCOW: A man who snatched a 19’th-century painting off the wall in a busy Moscow museum and calmy walked out has been arrested, authorities said on Monday.The suspect took a Crimean landscape by Russian artist Arkhip Kuindzhi and carried it through a room filled with visitors on Sunday evening, footage aired on state television showed. It is the second security incident to hit the capital’s Tretyakov gallery in a year, after a visitor in May seriously damaged a painting of Ivan the Terrible.The Russian interior ministry said a 31-year-old man was detained on Monday in a village outside Moscow. He …read more
Source: The News International
