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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 429

Roman Abramovich

This image provided by News Corp. shows Rupert Murdoch and Elena Zhukova posing for a photo, June 1, 2024 during their wedding ceremony at his vineyard estate in Bel Air, California (News Corp. via AP)
June 3, 2024, 10:19 am
Rupert Murdoch marries Russian molecular biologist, his 5th wife
Elena Zhukova, 67, is the former mother-in-law of Russian-Israeli oligarch Roman Abramovich
By AP and ToI Staff
Rupert Murdoch at a dinner at the Intrepid Sea, Air and Space Museum in New York, May 4, 2017. (AFP Photo/Brendan Smialowski)
August 17, 2023, 1:23 am
Murdoch said dating Roman Abramovich’s former mother-in-law
92-year-old media mogul currently cruising in the Mediterranean with Jewish molecular biologist Elena Zhukova
By ToI Staff
A police officer blocks a road for visitors of the Kadoorie Synagogue in Porto, Portugal on May 16, 2023. (Eli Mandelbaum/EJA)
June 2, 2023, 11:59 am
Porto Jews decry ‘Soviet-style antisemitism’ as lucrative citizenship vetting probed
Jewish community in coastal Portugal city has flourished, but is now being torn by decision to attack investigation into handling of citizenship process for Jews deemed Sephardic
By Canaan Lidor
File: Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, right, congratulates members of the Russian delegation after Russia was announced being the host for the 2018 soccer World Cup in Zurich, Switzerland, December 2, 2010. From left: famous conductor Valery Gergiyev, businessman Roman Abramovich, and Nizhny Novgorod governor Valery Shantsev. (AP Photo/Alexei Nikolsky, pool)
April 12, 2023, 9:13 pm
Fresh US, UK sanctions target oligarch Roman Abramovich’s ‘financial fixers’
Individuals in Cyprus helping to cloak wealth of Russian billionaires added to blacklist, part of latest efforts against supporters of Putin’s Ukraine war
By AFP
Israeli nonagenarian Mina Yuditskaya Berliner in a Tel Aviv apartment said to have been purchased by her former student, Vladimir Putin. (JTA/Ben Sales)
April 2, 2023, 6:12 pm
Oligarch Abramovich paid for Tel Aviv apartment that Putin gave his old teacher
Russian dictator was long thought to have made generous gesture to widowed educator, but records show Russian-Israeli billionaire purchased asset through shell company
By ToI Staff
Russian-Israeli oligarch Roman Abramovich at the Western Wall in the Old City of Jerusalem, December 20, 2022. (Arie Leib Abrams/Flash90)
January 6, 2023, 7:50 pm
Report: Abramovich placed kids in control of billions in assets to avoid sanctions
Cache leaked to Guardian shows sweeping reorganization was conducted days after Russia’s invasion began; experts say move makes it harder to financially target oligarch
By ToI Staff
Russian oligarch Roman Abramovich, right, and his son Aaron Alexander Abramovich at the Western Wall to mark the latter's bar mitzvah, in the Old City of Jerusalem on December 20, 2022. (Arie Leib Abrams/Flash90)
December 20, 2022, 7:04 pm
Oligarch Roman Abramovich spotted at Western Wall, reportedly for son’s bar mitzvah
Tycoon, who got Israeli citizenship in 2018, was seen leaving the country in March; is said to have lost over half his fortune due to Western sanctions over Ukraine war
By ToI Staff
Russian tycoon Roman Abramovich, owner of England's Chelsea Football Club, leaves the high court in London for a lunch break, October 31, 2011. (AP Photo/Sang Tan/File)
December 19, 2022, 8:26 pm
Canada says it will seize $26 million in assets from firm owned by Roman Abramovich
Announcing first time Ottawa seizes assets of a Russian oligarch, deputy minister says government will use funds from Granite Capital Holdings to support Ukraine’s reconstruction
By AFP
Illustrative: The Kadoorie Mekor Haim Synagogue in Porto, Portugal, on September 2, 2016. (AFP Photo/ Miguel Riopa)
September 29, 2022, 11:14 pm
Restrictions lifted from Porto rabbi as Portuguese citizenship fraud case continues
Lisbon court says no ‘single fact’ shows Rabbi Daniel Litvak gave priority to requests of Jews for Portuguese citizenship, in investigation tied to oligarch Roman Abramovich
By PHILISSA CRAMER
Chelsea soccer club owner Roman Abramovich sits in his box before their English Premier League soccer match against Sunderland at Stamford Bridge stadium in London, on December 19, 2015. (AP Photo/Matt Dunham, File)
September 23, 2022, 12:51 pm
Abramovich played ‘key part’ in release of Britons held by Russian-backed troops
One of the five men freed in a prisoner swap says Russian-Israeli oligarch identified himself after they boarded their flight to Saudi Arabia: ‘He’s well respected by Ukrainians’
By AFP
Luxury yacht 'Eclipse' belonging to Russian oligarch Roman Abramovich, is docked at the Aegean coastal resort of Marmaris, district of Mugla, on March 22, 2022 (Fatih Cetin/AFP)
August 28, 2022, 4:47 pm
Oligarch super yachts avoid international sanctions in neutral Turkey
11 yachts, including four belonging to Roman Abramovich that together are worth more than $1 billion, reportedly docked along Turkey’s coast
By ToI Staff
An undated photograph of Rolf Friedland, later Ralph Freeman (top row, third from left), with his football team in Berlin. (Courtesy)
August 15, 2022, 1:39 pm
ToI tale about soccer hero saving German Jew will be studied by Premier League youth
UK’s Holocaust Education Trust will integrate into its program Football Remembers the Holocaust the story of Tottenham player Bert Sproston saving Ralph Freeman from the Nazis
By Sue Surkes
Left to right: Mikhail Fridman (Mikhail Svetlov/Getty Images), Petr Aven (Alexander Aleshkin/Epsilon/Getty Images ), Moshe Kantor (Menahem Kahana/AFP via Getty Images), Roman Abramovich (Ian Walton/Getty Images) All images via JTA.
July 12, 2022, 7:52 am
With their planes grounded, Russia’s Jewish oligarchs see consequences of Putin ties
With no end in sight to invasion of Ukraine, effect of sanctions ripples through world of Jewish philanthropy
By MADELINE FIXLER and Asaf Shalev
Congregants praying at the Kadoorie Synagogue in Porto, Portugal, May 2014. (Courtesy of the Jewish community of Porto/JTA)
June 27, 2022, 6:44 am
Porto Jewish community denounces citizenship probe as a ‘Holocaust against families’
Head of community rails at Portuguese authorities over investigation into its role in vetting Roman Abramovich, others for Sephardic ancestry
By Cnaan Liphshiz
Chelsea soccer club owner Roman Abramovich attends the UEFA Women's Champions League final soccer match in Gothenburg, Sweden, on May 16, 2021. (AP Photo/ Martin Meissner, File)
June 6, 2022, 9:02 pm
US looks to seize two luxury jets linked to Russian oligarch Abramovich
Action takes place just days after new penalties announced on Kremlin officials, businessmen linked to Putin
By Larry Neumeister
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