Russia is not going to participate in Litigation in the United States over its ownership of instruments of the so-called assembly Shneeersona. This position was brought in Friday to the District Court of Washington lawyers representing the interests of the Russian Federation.

Their statement was a response to the lawsuit, podannyypredstavitelyami hasidskogo international Chabad movement, who seek to transfer their headquarters, rare books, manuscripts and archival documents from the collection Shneerson. The case examines Judge Royce Lambert.

This court has no right to give orders concerning property belonging to the Russian Federation, and Russia would not take such orders binding, – underlined the lawyers who defend the position of the Russian Federation.

And if the United States have any questions regarding this collection, they can send them the Russian side through diplomatic channels. But representatives of the Chabad movement, in turn, may, if willing, to make their claims in Russian courts.

According to Chabad, the collection in question, iznachalnoprinadlezhala Lubavitcher Rebbe – head of the Chabad movement. During the revolution, then the Second World War it was in the hands of the Soviet authorities. Now, according to these same sources, more than 12 thousand texts stored at the Russian State Library, and the rest – in the Russian state military archive.

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