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January 22, 2006: Russian Duma Approves Return of Hungarian Rare Book Collection
Moscow: "Russia's Duma, parliament's lower house, approved a law on Friday authorising the return of a collection of precious books belonging to the Sarospatak Calvinist College Library in NE Hungary."
"The volumes were taken away by Soviet troops in November 1945. The bill, approved in its third and final reading, provides for the return of 134 volumes, including 96 books in Latin, 33 in Hungarian and six in German. The collection includes prayer books and volumes on medicine, law and history."
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