Lavrov: We will sue for Schneerson's books

Russia intends to seek several books from the Schneerson library, transferred for a while, the American Hasidam. According to RIA Novosti, such a statement made at a press conference the Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov. "The Hasids, by the way, received several books from this library from this library for temporary use for a couple of months even more than 10 years ago. But they have not yet been returned. This must also be done by the subject of the trial," the agency of the word minister reports.

Earlier, during the press conference, Lavrov said that Moscow is tuned to develop relations with the United States and coordinate actions in the international arena, but will continue to respond to unfriendly steps from Washington.

On January 16, the American court ruled that Russia must pay a fine of 50 thousand dollars a day for failure to fulfill the verdict made in 2010 on the transfer of the Khabad Lyubavich in the United States A meetings of books and manuscripts known as the Schneerson library.

The next day, the Foreign Ministry expressed indignation with this decision, calling it "absolutely unlawful and provocative." The verdict itself, demanding to convey Schneerson's library Hasidam, was characterized as "odious." The ministry promised a tough response if sanctions were imposed against Russia. The Schneerson collection has historically formed in our country, represents the national treasure of the entire Russian people and, as the state property of the Russian Federation, uses jurisdictional immunities, ”the Foreign Ministry said.

US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on January 16 promised to maintain an “honest and fair” resolution of claims regarding art objects plundered during the Second World War. However, she did not comment on the court decision. "The State Department does not express any point of view on any current judicial dispute," she said.

Since the late 1980s, the community has been the return of the Schneerson collection. According to some reports, the first President of Russia Boris Yeltsin once promised James Baker, Secretary of State in the administration of George Bush Sr., to return the documents sacred to them to Hasidam.

The basis of the collection of Jewish books and manuscripts was a collection that has been collected from the 18th century. The Schneerson collection has about 12 thousand books and 50 thousand rare documents, including 381 manuscripts. During the First World War, when the Lubavichy found themselves in the zone of hostilities, Rabbi Joseph Schneerson transported part of the library to Moscow, where he entrusted its storage to Persitz and Polyakov’s book warehouse. With the advent of the Bolsheviks in Russia, the Schneerson’s meeting was nationalized as the decree of the Council of People's Commissars of November 26, 1918 demanded. About 25 thousand pages of manuscripts were confiscated by the Nazis in Poland, and then captured by the Red Army and transported to Moscow.