Pandora's box opened
"World Museums and collectors have in their collections of things of Russian origin, was seriously alarmed. Continue to develop the events surrounding the decision of the court in Washington, who on Aug. 6, 2010 granted the petition by an American NGO, demanding that Russia gave her a collection of rare books. It talking about "Schneerson Library" - a set of Hebrew tomes and manuscripts assembled in the XVIII century on the territory of modern Belarus. Part of the collection owned by Lubavitcher Rabbi Yosef Yitzchak Schneerson, was nationalized by the Bolsheviks in 1918. Another part of it - about 25 thousand pages - Schneerson evacuated from the USSR in 1930. She came into the hands of the Nazis, and after the Second World was requisitioned by the Red Army as compensation for our losses in war.
Since the American jurisprudence is precedent in nature, then the solution is in Washington a federal judge Royce Lamberth, a single blow of the judicial hammer with extraordinary ease brought to a complex historical and legal conflicts, will certainly have far-reaching consequences. If there is some organization took over breast the Russian state, the worse, say, the private trader Pierre Konovaloff, who is suing the Metropolitan Museum for the painting by Paul Cezanne Madame Cezanne in the greenhouse, once owned by his ancestor, the Russian patron Ivan Morozov? There are also villains exhibited Bolsheviks expropriating. On the waiting list claims to the Hermitage, the Pushkin Museum of Fine Tretyakov Gallery and our other museum stores, which is full of masterpieces, nationalized during the revolution. And now the art world will face a serious redistribution - American Themis famous dead bulldog grip, and the decision of its judges perform faithfully, no matter how ridiculous they sometimes were. The Russian Ministry of Culture has already ceased to issue permits for tour of America of our exhibitions. Culture Minister Alexander Avdeev sure that "all of Russia's property, not covered by diplomatic immunity, the U.S. can be arrested." And now is doing everything to return to the exposition of the Museum of icons by Andrei Rublev, overstay in the American backwoods. Pandora's box was opened. Every man for himself! "
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