A Ukrainian Jewish leader reportedly will buy the largest Russian-language newspaper in the United States. Vadim Rabinovich wants to turn the New York-based Novoe Russkoe Slovo into the “Financial Times of the Russian-speaking world,” the Forward reported. The newspaper, founded in 1910 by pro-czarist Russian emigres, is read by many Russian-speaking Jews but is not a Jewish paper.
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