What is thought to be a Scythian gold helmet, displayed at a museum exhibition in Kyiv last year.Credit...Brendan Hoffman for The New York Times KYIV, Ukraine — The heist started when a mysterious man in a white lab coat showed up at the museum. A squad of Russian soldiers stood behind him, with guns, watching eagerly. Using long tweezers and special gloves, the man in the white coat carefully ext
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