Topic: Russian oligarchs

March 15, 2014
9:33 pm

Rabbi Tanhoum Busin praying at Moscow's Holocaust Memorial Synagogue. (Fili synagogue community)

No dancing bears at Moscow synagogue this Purim

The use of a Holocaust memorial shul for a private bank party has sparked a scandal. But is the dispute also a power play by the disgruntled Orthodox community?

By Ksenia Svetlova

January 1, 2014
2:34 pm

Russian punk band Pussy Riot members Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, right, and Maria Alekhina smile during their news conference in Moscow, Russia, on Friday, Dec. 27, 2013. Tolokonnikova and Alekhina were granted amnesty on Monday, Dec. 23, two months short of their scheduled release after spending nearly two years in prison for their protest at Moscow's main cathedral. (AP Photo/Ivan Sekretarev)

Pussy Rioter urges: Khodorkovsky 4 prez

‘He is an incredible human being,’ says Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, ‘who was put through a more severe prison experience than we had’

By JTA

December 25, 2013
9:11 am

Mikhail Khodorkovsky speaks during a news conference in Berlin, Sunday, Dec. 22, 2013. (photo credit: AP Photo/Michael Sohn)

Mikhail Khodorkovsky applies for Swiss visa

Freed oligarch’s sons go to school in Switzerland and he has business ties there, but claims visa not an indication of future residence

By AP

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