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A border guard officer controls the vehicles entering Finland at the border checkpoint crossing in Vaalimaa, Finland, on the border with the Russian Federation on September 29, 2022. (Alessandro RAMPAZZO / AFP)
September 29, 2022, 11:03 am
Russians rush to flee country amid draft, fearing borders will soon ‘close forever’
‘The mobilization is a first sign that something worse might happen,’ says Oleg, a bar owner from Moscow; around 17,000 Russians left to Finland last weekend
By Viken KANTARCI and Elias Huuhtanen
Russian Liberal Democratic Party leader Vladimir Zhirinovsky speaks during a meeting with animal rights activists in a park in Moscow, Russia, Sept. 9, 2021. (AP Photo/Pavel Golovkin, File)
April 6, 2022, 5:52 pm
Vladimir Zhirinovsky, firebrand Russian nationalist politician, dies at 75
Veteran leader of the Liberal Democratic Party was also known for making anti-Jewish statements, despite acknowledging his father’s Jewish heritage
By Agencies
Russian Kirill poses for a photo in a hostel in Belgrade, on March 17, 2022. (Vladimir Zivojinovic/AFP)
March 26, 2022, 5:12 pm
Fleeing to Serbia, some Russians dismayed by pro-Kremlin attitudes
Russians resettling in country have sought to flee fallout from war at home, but find large swaths of the population decidedly on the side of the invasion
By Miodrag SOVILJ
Vladimir Karavayev, 80, a former official of the Communist Party in Kyrgyzstan, speaks with an AFP journalist in the southern Russian Rostov region on February 25, 2022 (STRINGER / AFP)
February 25, 2022, 6:32 pm
Swamped by state media, Russians near Ukraine toe the line
‘Over there, there’s injustice and the Nazis are in power,’ one resident living near the border says when questioned on invasion
By Andrea PALASCIANO
In this May 20, 2000 file photo, two Russian soldiers make a routine check of metal containers with toxic agents at the Shikhany chemical weapons storage site in the town of Gorny, 124 miles (200 kms) south of the Volga River city of Saratov, Russia. (AP Photo, File)
April 23, 2018, 4:56 pm
The men behind the Cold War poison that surfaced in a quiet English town
Israel was reportedly deeply concerned that Anatoly Kuntsevich, one of the men behind ‘Novichok’, was working with Damascus, and repeatedly warned Moscow, but to no avail
By VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV
Illustrative: A Russian tourist jumps by the sea port in Tel Aviv, on March 18, 2016. (Yossi Zamir/Flash90)
March 26, 2017, 11:24 pm
Russian tourists in Israel advised not to swear
In travel guide, Moscow foreign ministry also recommends against criticizing Jewish state to Israelis
By ToI Staff
MK Ksenia Svetlova of the Zionist Union party as a new member of the Israeli Knesset, March 29, 2015. (Miriam Alster/FLASH90)
January 22, 2017, 4:25 pm
Under fake name, MK speaks to Russian radio as analyst
Ethics Committee raps Ksenia Svetlova for talking to state-sponsored Sputnik as ‘Aleksandra Kalinina’; lawmaker says ‘what is the big deal?’
By ToI Staff
President of the Russian Olympic Committee Alexander Zhukov poses in front of a matryoshka doll at the opening ceremony of the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on August 4, 2016. (AFP/Kirill Kudryavtsev)
August 5, 2016, 11:37 am
Russia denies diplomat had deadly fight with Rio mugger
Embassy in Brazil says there is ‘misunderstanding’ by police, who claim ‘vice consul got into physical confrontation with aggressor’
By AP
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump addresses the Faith and Freedom Coalition's Road to Majority Conference in Washington, Friday, June 10, 2016. (Cliff Owen/AP)
June 14, 2016, 9:29 pm
Russians hackers nab Democrats’ research on Trump
Party chairwoman calls incident ‘serious,’ officials say computer networks of candidates targeted as well
By Daniel Douek
Donald Duck under threat by Nazis in 'Der Fuehrer's Face,' 1943 (YouTube screen capture)
September 11, 2015, 11:23 am
WATCH: Russians fined for sharing anti-Nazi Disney clip
Wartime Donal Duck film lampooning Hitler is banned in Russia as extremist material, despite its clear anti-fascist message
By ToI Staff
Sergei Ustinov, director of the Museum of Jewish History in Russia and vice president of the Russian Jewish Congress (YouTube screen capture)
July 17, 2015, 10:27 am
Moscow’s Jewish museum chief shot in the neck
Sergei Ustinov, vice president of the Russian Jewish Congress, seriously injured in possible anti-Semitic attack
By ToI Staff and JTA
Illustrative: A Russian biker shows a banner depicting Joseph Stalin and reading a WWII slogan 'For the Motherland! For Stalin!' in Moscow on April 25, 2015. (photo credit: AFP/Dmitry Serebrayakov)
April 25, 2015, 8:58 pm
Pro-Putin bikers defy bans, ride to Berlin for WWII anniversary
Gang also to attempt trip to Auschwitz to celebrate Soviet victory over Nazis despite protests from Germany, Poland
By Maxime Popov
Shas party leader Aryeh Deri, December 2012 (photo credit: Tsafrir Abayov/Flash90)
January 13, 2013, 2:21 am
Shas calls on Netanyahu to open coalition talks before election
Ultra-Orthodox party leader Aryeh Deri accuses Likud head of looking to form government with center-left factions
By Joshua Davidovich
Shas party leader Aryeh Deri, December 2012 (photo credit: Tsafrir Abayov/Flash90)
December 31, 2012, 4:34 am
Despite apology, Shas leader continues with ethnically charged attacks on Likud-Beytenu
Aryeh Deri says no senior Cabinet posts for Sephardim in next Netanyahu government
By Ron Friedman
Shas party leader Aryeh Deri, December 2012 (photo credit: Tsafrir Abayov/Flash90)
December 28, 2012, 12:03 pm
Shas honcho apologizes for calling Likud-Beytenu ‘Russian and white’
‘I never speak like that, they are my brothers,’ Aryeh Deri says, stepping back from ethnically charged rhetoric employed a day earlier
By Joshua Davidovich
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