Russian court refuses US request to hand over Jewish archive

A Moscow court has rejected a US order for Russia to hand over a disputed Jewish archive, instead imposing a fine on Washington for keeping part of the collection.

Moskovski sud je odbio  nalog USA da im preda Židovski arhiv.

The dispute over the Schneersohn Library - a collection of more than 12,000 texts and 50,000 documents venerated by a group of Hasidic Jews - has for years damaged Russia-US cultural ties.The Moscow arbitration court rejected a US court ruling in 2013 that imposed a $50,000-per-day fine on Russia as long as the collection was not handed over to New York's Orthodox Chabad-Lubavitch community, which considers itself the legal heir to the archive.

Radi se o Schneersohnovoj biblioteci, kolekciji koja ima više od 12.000 tekstova i 50.000 dokumenata hasidskih Židova . To je godinama narušavalo kulturne odnose između Rusije i USA. Moskovski sud je odbio  odluku USA suda,  iz 2013 godine,  da se mora platiti 50.000$ na dan  dok se kolekcija ne preda  ortodoksnoj Chabad Lubavitch zajednici u New Yorku,  koja je legalni nasljednik arhive. Ruski sud je umjesto toga donio odliku  da  USA mora platiti 50.00$ na dan za držanje arhiva u Kongresnoj biblioteci ( Library of Congress).