A court order levying a $50,000 daily fine against the Russian government for refusing to return thousands of Jewish religious texts made international headlines in January. But what’s happened since then remains a secret, except that the Russian Federation’s tab has grown to more than $3.5 million.
Agudas Chasidei Chabad of the United States sued Russia for the return of the Schneerson Collection some 12,000 books and manuscripts seized in Russia during the early 20th century, along with 25,000 pages of handwritten texts that the Soviet Red Army seized as war loot from the Nazis. U.S. District Chief Judge Royce Lamberth in 2010 told Russia to return the collection, and when that didn’t happen, he ordered civil contempt sanctions over the objection of the U.S. Justice Department.
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