Director of Gapar Aitiev Kyrgyz National Museum of Fine Arts Yurstanbek Shygaev wrote a letter of leave with subsequent dismissal. Representatives of the museum told 24.kg news agency.
According to them, the commission of the Ministry of Culture, Information and Tourism continues to conduct an audit. It became known that Yuristanbek Shygaev took out two originals of paintings from the museum’s storehouse — one by Nikolay Sverchkov «Horse and Dog», the other «Portrait of Bakunin» by Nikolay Ge — and returned them damaged.
Yuristanbek Shygaev claims that he will restore everything, and the Minister of Culture, Information and Tourism Azamat Zhamankulov asks to wait for the results of the commission’s work. Former head of the ministry Sultan Raev said that he was stunned by the act of Shygaev.
