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Fast Forward Freed Tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky Hits Russia on Political Prisoners
Former oil tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky on Sunday promised not to seek power in Russia but said he would fight for the freedom of people he considered political prisoners, challenging Vladimir Putin two days after a presidential pardon freed him from jail. Khodorkovsky told reporters in Berlin that “the struggle for power is not for me”,…
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Fast Forward Freed Jewish Tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky Reunites With Family in Berlin
Former oil tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky was reunited with family members in Berlin on Saturday, a day after he was released from a decade-long jail term during which he became one of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s most prominent critics. Khodorkovsky, 50, was released from a remote prison near the Arctic Circle on Friday after Putin pardoned…
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Fast Forward Jewish Oil Tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky Freed After Decade in Russia Prison
Mikhail Khodorkovsky, once Russia’s richest man, left prison on Friday after a pardon from President Vladimir Putin ended a decade in jail that many saw as the fallen oil tycoon’s punishment for daring to challenge the Kremlin. Russia’s federal prison service said Khodorkovsky was heading for Germany following his release and that his mother, Marina,…
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Fast Forward Russian Jew Ilya Farber Ordered Freed — Corrruption Trial Tainted by Anti-Semitism
A Russian court ordered the early release of a Jewish teacher whose bribery trial was marred by anti-Semitic statements and whose lengthy prison sentence was criticized by Russian President Vladimir Putin. The Tver Regional Court last week reduced Ilya Farber’s sentence from seven years to three for accepting bribes and abusing his position while working…
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Opinion Now They Come for the Gays
The Jewish community should feel a sense of déjà vu as it witnesses the government-sponsored persecution of LGBT people in Russia. We should respond with a statement of determination nearly as familiar to us as the Shema: Never again. In the 1960s, with our awareness of the Holocaust very fresh in our memory, American Jews…
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Opinion Slouching Towards Sochi
In three months from now, athletes from all over the world will arrive in the Black Sea resort town of Sochi, Russia, for the start of the Winter Olympic Games. We will experience all the requisite Olympic fanfare — the fluttering flags, blaring trumpets, nationalistic tallies of silver and gold. And the host, Russia, will…
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Fast Forward Benjamin Netanyahu Pleads With Vladimir Putin for Tougher Stand on Iran
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu urged Russia on Wednesday to insist world powers set tough terms for Iran in any deal reached in the standoff over Tehran’s nuclear program. After failing to convince Washington that global powers are pursuing a bad deal, Netanyahu flew to Moscow to meet President Vladimir Putin as envoys from Russia,…
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Fast Forward Rabbi Who Survived Dagestan Shooting Speaks to Chabad
A rabbi who survived an anti-Semitic shooting in Russia led a prayer at the annual gathering of Chabad’s emissaries in New York. Rabbi Ovadia Isakov from the Russian republic of Dagestan led the prayer on Thursday, the first day of this year’s week-long International Conference of Shluchim and Shluchos of the Chabad movement, according to…
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