Topic: Russian oligarchs

November 5, 2013
7:28 pm

Vadim Rabinovich is unfazed by critics and readily offers his own censure of European and American Jewish leaders. (photo credit: Cnaan Liphshiz/JTA)

Ukraine’s Jewish Congress head: Builder or bulldozer?

Shrugging off critics and an assassination attempt, Vadim Rabinovich claims the mantle of Jewish leader

By Cnaan Liphshiz

March 26, 2013
1:56 am

Russian tycoon Boris Berezovsky talks to the media after losing a case against Russian oligarch Roman Abramovich as he leaves the High Court in London, in 2012. (photo credit: AP)

Post-mortem shows Russian Jewish oligarch died from hanging

Nothing in Berezovsky’s death points to violent struggle, police say

March 23, 2013
9:55 pm

Russian tycoon Boris Berezovsky talks to the media after losing a case against Russian oligarch Roman Abramovich as he leaves the High Court in London, in 2012. (photo credit: AP)

Self-exiled Jewish oligarch found dead in England

Boris Berezovsky, who had a bitter falling out with Putin and sought political asylum outside Russia, dies at 67

November 12, 2012
6:17 pm

Residents of Hitler's hometown fear that his former house could become a pilgrimage site for neo-Nazis if sold to the wrong buyer. (Kerstin Joensson/AP)

Russian MP wants to buy Hitler’s first home — so he can destroy it

Frantz Klintsevich, a member of Vladimir Putin’s ruling party, has launched a campaign to raise $2.8 million to purchase the dictator’s Austrian birthplace

By Nissan Tzur