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Topic: Moscow

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April 10, 2013
2:56 pm

Moscow’s new Jewish museum wins top museum award

Designed by Ralph Appelbaum Associates, it offers 3d cinemas, interactive maps and touch screens

March 28, 2013
1:41 pm

Disputed library to move to Moscow Jewish museum

President Vladimir Putin has said collection claimed by Chabad-Lubavitch will not leave Russia

March 24, 2013
7:01 pm

London police: Berezovsky’s death ‘unexplained’

Officials say probe of death of Russian Jewish oligarch and Kremlin critic is proceeding ‘as normal’

March 15, 2013
6:05 am

Putin and Abbas in Bethlehem last year. (photo credit: Issam Rimawi/Flash 90)

Abbas ‘hopes’ for new talks, but pessimistic over prospects

Palestinian leader, in Russia for state visit, says ‘major efforts’ needed to get negotiations underway

By Joshua Davidovich

March 3, 2013
9:50 pm

Sofia Greenberg, shown in 1952 in the lap of her grandfather, Berl, hopes to find her American cousins. (Courtesy of Sofia Greenberg via JTA)

Russian immigrant seeks cousins spared from Holocaust

WWII cut the connection between Sofia Greenberg’s grandfather and his brother, who moved to the US a generation before the war

By Hillel Kuttler

February 27, 2013
3:12 pm

Naomi Bloch’s great-grandparents, Shlomo and Esther-Temme Rosenberg, led the family’s exodus east after Russia expelled the Jews of Siauliai in 1915. (Courtesy of Naomi Bloch via JTA)

Aussie attempts to find family in the Old Country

Unlike most Jews with roots in Eastern Europe, Naomi Bloch believes she may have relatives still in the region

By Hillel Kuttler

February 25, 2013
11:22 pm

US President Barack Obama (photo credit: AP/Carolyn Kaster)

‘Obama to tell Netanyahu US gearing up for Iran strike’

During upcoming visit, president will convey message that window for American military operation opens in June, TV report says

By Yifa Yaakov

February 23, 2013
3:49 am

A citizen journalism image provided by Aleppo Media Center AMC, shows Syrian rebels stand in the rubble of damaged buildings due to government airstrikes, in the neighborhood of Karam Tarab near Aleppo International Airport, in Aleppo, Syria, Wednesday, Feb. 13, 2013. (photo credit:AP/Aleppo Media Center AMC)

Syria opposition spurns US, Russia invites in protest

From the web Reuters: Syrian National Coalition says it won’t visit Washington and Moscow because of nations’ silence over Aleppo killings

February 20, 2013
11:55 pm

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, left, and UN envoy for Syria Lakhdar Brahimi talk during a meeting in Moscow, Russia, on Saturday, Dec. 29 (photo credit: AP/Ivan Sekretarev)

Russia offers to broker Syria talks

FM Sergey Lavrov says Kremlin and Arab League attempting to establish direct contact between Assad’s regime and opposition.

January 31, 2013
8:27 pm

Former National Security Adviser Major General (ret.) Giora Eiland (photo credit: Flash90)

‘Syria situation could escalate,’ warns former national security adviser

Giora Eiland posits symbolic Syrian missile launch could aggravate tense situation with Israel

By Greg Tepper

January 23, 2013
5:24 pm

Rescue workers and bystanders surround a building damaged by a rocket attack, that killed at least 12 people, in Aleppo, Syria, on Friday (photo credit: AP/SANA)

6 family members killed in Syrian rebel stronghold

No plans to evacuate tens of thousands of Russian citizens from war zone after 77 leave for Moscow Wednesday

January 21, 2013
9:02 pm

Moscow's Red Square (photo credit: Anna Kaplan/Flash90/File)

Russia to begin airlifting citizens from Syria

Moscow shows increasing doubt in Assad’s ability to rule, claims it has contingency plans to evacuate thousands

December 29, 2012
11:43 am

In this Nov. 29, 2012 file photo, Lakhdar Brahimi, Joint Special Representative of the United Nations and the League of Arab States for Syria, answers media questions after consultations at United Nations headquarters. (Photo credit: AP/Richard Drew)

UN peace envoy and Russian FM push for speedy, Syrian-led resolution to crisis

150 killed in fighting Friday; only choices are ‘hell or a political process,’ warns Brahimi while Lavrov calls opposition’s refusal to negotiate with Assad ‘a dead end’

By Michal Shmulovich and AP

December 28, 2012
4:31 pm

Muslim cleric Mouaz al-Khatib, poses for a photo after after he was elected president of the newly formed Syrian National Coalition for Opposition and Revolutionary Forces, in Doha, Qatar (photo credit: AP/Osama Faisal)

Syrian rebel leader snubs Russian FM’s overtures for talks

‘If we don’t represent the Syrian people, why is he inviting us?’ asks head of opposition, calls on Moscow to demand Assad step down before negotiations

By AP and Michal Shmulovich

December 28, 2012
8:52 am

Syrian Foreign Minister Walid Muallem, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, center, and Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Mikhail Bogdanov in Moscow in April 2012 (photo credit: AP)

In push for ceasefire plan, Moscow invites Syrian rebel leader for talks

Russia recently said it would revive efforts to implement the Geneva plan, which calls for an end to fighting but no Assad ouster

By Joshua Davidovich and AP

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