The crown was later found on the pavement, there are a few earrings and pendants still to be found. For the values of the gems: gems from that time often have quite a crude cut by today’s standards,and they are not individually of a high value. As with tea sets, it’s the full original set that has priceless value. The more you break it into bits, then individual gens, the more the value goes down.

Clearly not a pink panther level job, though kudos for the ballsy heist.

It’s the kind of quotes that gets more recent with each passing day.

See Vladimir Soloviev (journalist, presenter on the public funded Rossiya 1 channel), Dmitri Medvedev ( current vice president of the Russian federation security council), Margarita Simonian (public servant at Russia Segodnia).

Do your own research, it should be easy enough.

Yes, multiple declarations and menaces made on Russian Public channels by Russian Public servants. It’s important to know that the Russian state has power over the editorial choices of those channels.

1. She has no military authority.
2. See 1.
3. She says so only after Trump says he would allow it.
4. Trump didn’t breach the subject first. Poland and Estonia did.
5. If weapons and carriers without US tech are used, there is no need to talk about it with the US or NATO or even the EU before acting.