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Tuesday, May 29, 2018
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Tuesday, May 29, 2018
Kremlin says Abramovich ‘has right’ to Israeli citizenship
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleRussian oligarch Roman Abramovich has the right to Israeli citizenship, the Kremlin says, after the Chelsea football club-owner reportedly traveled to Israel and became a citizen after delays to his British visa application.
“The Kremlin doesn’t think anything about this,” presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov tells journalists in response to a question on the reported move by Abramovich, a former regional governor seen as being on good terms with President Vladimir Putin.
“An entrepreneur receives Israeli citizenship. So what? It’s his right,” Peskov says of Abramovich, who is Jewish.
Abramovich, who was reportedly in Russia in recent days, flew into Tel Aviv on a private jet and received an Israeli identity card.
— AFP
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