The Russian Foreign Ministry has suggested that the Ministry of Culture and the Russian State Library have a Russian court impose a fine on the US Congress Library for failing to return seven books out of the Schneerson collection that Moscow gave Washington for temporary use back in 1994, according to the Moscow-based daily Kommersant.
A scandal around the Rabbi Schneerson collection flared up in the Soviet years. The US-based Hasidic movement Chabad Lubavitch demanded the collected on the ground that the author had bequeathed the books to them.
A US federal court ruled in the middle of January this year that Russia should pay $50,000 dollars a day in fines for Moscow’s refusal to return the books and manuscripts to the US Hasids.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov warned that Moscow would respond toughly to the court ruling.
http://www.kommersant.ru/doc/2122228
http://english.ruvr.ru/2013_02_08/Russian-Foreign-Ministry-wants-US-Congress-Library-fined/
http://rapsinews.com/judicial_news/20130208/266343138.html
http://www.kommersant.ru/doc/2122228
http://english.ruvr.ru/2013_02_08/Russian-Foreign-Ministry-wants-US-Congress-Library-fined/
http://rapsinews.com/judicial_news/20130208/266343138.html
i think it is just right to impose a fine to US because the ownership of those books are not theirs and that those might be important references for Russia.
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