The Russian Embassy in Washington responded to the ruling Royce Lambert's statement that the Schneerson Collection is part of the national heritage of Russia and that Moscow does not believe the community "Chabad Lubavitch" to its rightful owner.

Litigation over the Schneerson collection in the United States continued for eight years.

Recall, October 25, 2011 visit of the Russian sailing ship in San Francisco was canceled due to possible arrest at the suit of an Orthodox Jewish organization. Mission dedicated to the APEC summit in 2012, was in jeopardy. Campaign of "Hope" was carried out in accordance with the Federal Government.

Swimming went according to plan, and "Hope" waiting call in the port of San Francisco, but due to the fact that in October, came into effect on the decision of the Federal District Court of Washington County at the suit of the Hasidic organization "Chabad" to the Russian Federation, the Russian Foreign Ministry has put in fame guide MSU Nevel a high degree of probability of arrest "Hope" in the ports of the United States and made recommendations not to go into the first port visit to San Francisco.

In August 2010, the Federal District Court in Washington ruled that Russia should return the "Chabad" portion of the meeting Schneerson, namely 25 thousand pages of manuscripts. Then the Russian reaction was very harsh: the official Foreign Ministry statement said the decision of the court "void from the legal point of view" and "a flagrant violation of the norms and principles of international law."

The Russian Foreign Ministry said that it was "American Hasidim have to return to Russia seven books from the same collection, which they received in 1994 from the Russian State Library through the Library of Congress on international interlibrary loan for two months and 16 years illegally detained."

Part of the collection gathered by Lubavitcher Rabbi Schneerson, was nationalized by the Bolsheviks in 1918 and ended up in the collections of Lenin (now the Russian State) libraries. It includes 12,000 books and manuscripts.

Another part of the Schneerson had brought from the Soviet Union and emigrated to the 1930s. About 25 thousand manuscripts of the hands of the Nazis, and then became available to the Red Army, were taken as booty and handed over to the Russian State Military Archive (takes its name from 1992).

After the decision in 2010 to transfer the Schneerson Collection in New York Russia suspended the organization of exhibitions in the United States due to concerns about the arrest of the exhibits. Meanwhile, the movement of "Chabad Lubavitch" submitted to the court the assurance that they will not attempt to any work of art, which the U.S. State Department considers the cultural importance.

At a hearing last week, Judge Lamberth said that the major international cultural projects "have immunity under U.S. federal law.

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