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President Putin Vows to Keep Chabad Library in Russia

Posted in Foreign Sovereign Immunities, Restitution

Backing off some of the more belligerent comments made recently by the Foreign Ministry, Russian President Vladimir Putin has nonetheless signalled that Russia has no plans to return the Chabad library to comply with a 2010 judgment or the more recent sanctions order.  Both Reuters and the Art Newspaper reported that Putin proposed to store… Continue Reading