17 January 2013 @ 12:41 pm
Judge fines Russia $50,000 a day for not returning historical collections to Jewish group  
The Jewish group, Chabad-Lubavitch, based in the Brooklyn borough of New York City, had already persuaded Lamberth that it has a valid claim to the tens of thousands of religious books and manuscripts, some hundreds of years old, which record the group’s core teachings and traditions. The judge earlier ruled the records are unlawfully held by the Russian State Library and the Russian military archive, and in 2010, he ordered the Russian government to turn them over to the U.S. Embassy in Moscow or to Chabad’s representative.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/courts_law/judge-fines-russia-50000-a-day-for-not-returning-historic-collection-to-jewish-group/2013/01/16/45275224-600b-11e2-9dc9-bca76dd777b8_story.html

Is this real life?