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Dispute with US group over Jewish holy texts leads Russia to freeze cultural loans to US

by Emil Vojtánek l May 19, 2011 12:00 AM
Dispute with US group over Jewish holy texts leads Russia to freeze cultural loans to US

A decades-long dispute between Russia and an Orthodox Jewish group over ownership of holy texts collected for centuries by influential rabbis and seized by the Soviet Union has threatening cultural loans between the two countries.