S.A. Greene
By S.A. Greene
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News ‘Grandfather’ Lends a Helping Hand
BATUMI, Autonomous Republic of Adjara, Georgia — Emil Krupnik and Oksana Vasilkova may not yet live in a Jeffersonian democracy, but politics in their home country has certainly changed since the collapse of the Soviet Union. One day before the March 28 parliamentary elections here, a reporter from the local radio station paid a visit…
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News Putin Appoints Russia’s Third Jewish Premier
LONDON — In a hotly anticipated move that kept Kremlin-watchers guessing about policies on everything from economics to nationalities, Russian President Vladimir Putin appointed his country’s third Jewish prime minister in its post-Soviet history. Not much is known about Russia’s newly appointed prime minister, Mikhail Fradkov. The former taxman and diplomat has kept so quiet…
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News Russian Politics as Usual, With Putin’s Grasp Firm
LONDON — There was a time not too long ago that Russia was famous for its instability. Observers joked that if President Boris Yeltsin lived long enough everyone would get a crack at being prime minister. President Vladimir Putin came to power in 2000 promising to change all that, to make life predictable again for…
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News Kremlin Targets Jewish Tycoons In War on Critics
LONDON — Oil titan Mikhail Khodorkovsky is not the first Jew who has risen to become Russia’s richest citizen. Before him Roman Abramovich and Boris Berezovsky had their stints, while Vladimir Gusinsky got close. In Russia, however, life at the top is not all that it’s cracked up to be. Berezovsky and Gusinsky are now…
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News Moscow Targets Another Russian Jewish Oligarch
MOSCOW — It’s becoming a familiar scenario: Kremlin prosecutors go after a prominent Jewish “oligarch,” and Washington reacts with stern warnings that Russia is risking all the progress it has made during the last decade. Just under three years ago, the target was Vladimir Gusinsky, the press baron and founding president of the Russian Jewish…
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News U.K. Looks Inward as Its Boys Turn Up as Suicide Bombers
LONDON — The disclosure that two British citizens were involved in a Tel Aviv suicide attack has come as a shock to Britain. It has not, however, come as a surprise for British Jews. “I think we are saddened but not surprised,” said Henry Grunwald, president-elect of the Board of Deputies of British Jews, the…
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News Russian Oligarch May Face Extradition
LONDON — British authorities bowed to Kremlin requests to begin extradition hearings against Boris Berezovsky, a Russian Jewish tycoon and former politician who has been in self-imposed exile in London for more than three years. Berezovsky, along with a former business colleague, Yulii Dubov, was arrested and promptly released March 24, in an arrangement between…
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News Mosque Crackdown Alarms London Jews
LONDON — Jews in the British capital are on “high alert” for attacks after a recent crackdown on Islamist extremists and because of a heightening of tensions owing to the likelihood of a war in Iraq. The Community Security Trust, a wing of the Board of Deputies of British Jews, the country’s central Jewish representative…
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