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Russia Swiftly Lashes Out At Sanctions Concerning Schneerson/Chabad Library, U.S. Government Still Silent

By Nicholas O'Donnell on Posted in Cultural Property, Foreign Sovereign Immunities, Restitution, World War II

Despite refusing to participate in a lawsuit for nearly three years since a judgment that ordered the return to the Chabad Lubavitch movement in Brooklyn of the late Rebbe Menachem Schneerson’s library, the Russian Federation swiftly spoke up when news came of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia’s order yesterday sanctioning and… Continue Reading

Russia Sanctioned $50,000 per day for Defiance of Chabad Library Judgment that Led to Art and Cultural Loan Embargo

By Nicholas O'Donnell on Posted in Cultural Property, Foreign Sovereign Immunities, Immunity from Seizure Act, Restitution, World War II

In a case that has tested the principles of how a defiant sovereign defendant can be compelled to comply with a court order, the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia has taken an emphatic step in an order issued today.  The Russian Federation, the Russian Ministry of Culture and Mass Communications, the Russian… Continue Reading