01-15-2003, 09:05 AM
Art,
That may be true, although I am not sure about the older laws. However, the fact is there was a great change in attitude with the promulgation of a new Russian Federation law around 1997 or 1998 - perhaps someone has more details.
Before then stuff was still stopped from time to time but you could openly buy orders and medals and many people got them out. After that law you could not get anything out legitimately and even the sales of orders and badges started to move "underground" or actually simply under-counter.
Interestingly, as far as I can tell this did not really effect prices much. Instead demand, and in some regards growing seller and buyer awareness, have affected prices.
It is also not legal to remove any thing "old" - I hear 25 years and I hear pre-1970 amongst other things - without a Ministry of Culture Exportation Permit. So technically it is as illegal to take out a WWII uniform as a WWII campaign medal.
Shawn
That may be true, although I am not sure about the older laws. However, the fact is there was a great change in attitude with the promulgation of a new Russian Federation law around 1997 or 1998 - perhaps someone has more details.
Before then stuff was still stopped from time to time but you could openly buy orders and medals and many people got them out. After that law you could not get anything out legitimately and even the sales of orders and badges started to move "underground" or actually simply under-counter.
Interestingly, as far as I can tell this did not really effect prices much. Instead demand, and in some regards growing seller and buyer awareness, have affected prices.
It is also not legal to remove any thing "old" - I hear 25 years and I hear pre-1970 amongst other things - without a Ministry of Culture Exportation Permit. So technically it is as illegal to take out a WWII uniform as a WWII campaign medal.
Shawn
