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Opinion Russia Revoked Our Citizenship, It Won’t Even Give Us Visas
I was overwhelmed by the number of responses to my article “Russia Quietly Strips Emigres of Dual Citizenship” that was published in the Forward in June. The article reported on Russia’s new citizenship rules, according to which anyone who was not residing in Russia on February 6, 1992, is no longer considered a Russian citizen….
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News Russia Quietly Strips Emigres of Dual Citizenship
Tens of thousands of Russian dual nationals are being effectively stripped of their Russian citizenship via a quiet policy of Russian consulates worldwide refusing to renew their passports. Under new regulations the consulates are enforcing, anyone seeking to renew a passport who was not registered as living in Russia on February 6, 1992, will be…
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Fast Forward Russian Chief Rabbi Urges New Push Against Anti-Semitic Hate Speech
Following the dissemination of an anti-Semitic conspiracy theory by a politician from Russian President Vladimir Putin’s party, a chief rabbi of Russia called on the government to stamp out hate speech against Jews. Rabbi Berel Lazar’s appeal Friday to Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev was in reaction to the April 10 statement on Jews by Vladislav…
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Fast Forward Russia Seeks to Reassure Israel Over Syria Pullout Plan
JERUSALEM – A Russian diplomat sought to reassure Israel on Tuesday that its security would not be harmed by the winding down of Moscow’s intervention in the Syrian civil war, but Israel’s armed forces chief said the ramifications were not yet clear. Israeli officials have privately said Russian forces sent in last year to help…
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News Surprise: Putin Says Russia To Withdraw Troops From Syria
In a surprise move, Russian President Vladimir Putin has ordered a military withdrawal from Syria. Saying its intervention, launched in 2015, has mostly achieved its goals, Putin said Monday the pullout of most of Russia’s forces will begin Tuesday, according to Reuters. Russia will keep its Hmeimim airbase and its longtime Tartus naval base in…
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The Schmooze How Klezmer United Jews of One Post-Soviet Russian City
Kazan, Russia — When the six members of the Simcha klezmer band hauled their instruments into a dilapidated rehearsal space, no one suspected they were about to hijack a government building in this large, clean city some 450 miles east of Moscow. But that’s exactly what happened in 1995 when this popular ensemble — founded in…
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Fast Forward Ukrainian-Jewish Billionaire Igor Kolomoisky sues Russia
AMSTERDAM — Ukrainian-Jewish billionaire Igor Kolomoisky sued Russia in an international court over his inability to operate an airport in Crimea. The Permanent Court of Arbitration, a Hague-based intergovernmental organization with 117 member states, announced Wednesday that it would review the lawsuit, Reuters reported. Kolomoisky, a Ukrainian nationalist who funded military actions in the Ukraine-Russia…
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Fast Forward Euro Human Rights Court Orders Russia To Pay Jailed Jewish Activist
The European Court of Human Rights ordered the Russian government to pay $35,000 to a Jewish activist from Moscow whom authorities illegally imprisoned at a demonstration. The ruling on Jan. 5 by the court in Strasbourg, France relates to the arrest on May 6, 2012 of Evgeny Frumkin, a 53-year-old Muscovite organizer of many rallies…
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