U.S. will not be returned early icon of Rublev Museum exhibited in Clinton

In the negotiations at Clinton attended the creator of the Museum of Russian Icons Gordon Lankton, director of Kent Russell, Russian diplomats from Washington and New York. Culture Minister Alexander Avdeev on March 17 instructed to immediately return to force majeure 37 items Rublev Museum to be exhibited in the U.S. until July 25, to Russia. "The curator of the museum's Andrei Rublev Oxana Smirnova, who arrived in Clinton to follow the phasing exposition, will return to Russia as soon as everything is ready, but no icons" – said in a press release from the museum in Clinton. According to museum director Kent Russell, the successful resolution of the situation in the national plan will impact on all the museums, and we look forward to a speedy and certain outcome for all stakeholders. " Earlier, Russian media reported that the exhibition from the Museum of Rublev, which caused huge interest in the U.S., will return to Russia early. According to unconfirmed reports, the reason was the situation around the collection of Rabbi Yosef Yitzchak Schneerson of Lubavitch village in what is now the Smolensk region, who began collecting a library in 1772. His descendants replenish the meeting today, it includes 12,000 books and 50,000 rare documents. After many movements in the XX century was a collection of the Russian State Library and the Russian military archives. But in early August 2010 the Washington court held that based in the U.S. umbrella organization Lubavitcher Hasidim "Agudas Chabad Chassidim" has proved its right to part of the library – Family Archive Schneerson, who make up 25 thousand books and manuscripts. Russian Foreign Ministry considered unlawful and null and void from the legal point of view of the U.S. court decision and declared that Russia will not return anything. After the August court decision Pushkin Museum. Pushkin and the Hermitage have refused to participate in an exhibition at the National Gallery in Washington amid fears that the paintings will impose arrest to secure the court's decision on the library Schneerson. Museum of Icons in Clinton, founded in 2006. On an ongoing basis there is exhibited a collection of more than 400 icons.