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• Report: Russia will sell Iran missile system

  December 22, 2008 6:06pm

  Russia will soon deliver to Iran parts of a missile system that would hinder efforts to launch an airstrike against the country, Iran’s state news agency reported.

• Georgian refugees seek return to normalcy

  December 22, 2008 2:05am

  With a helping hand from the West, many of those displaced by the Russia-Georgia conflict have traveled the short distance back to their homes and to some semblance of normalcy.

• Israel urges Moscow to halt Iran sale

  December 18, 2008 10:58pm

  A senior Israeli defense official visited Moscow in an attempt to dissuade Russia from selling missile defense systems to Iran.

• Deadly crash comes as Russian tourism to Israel climbs

  December 17, 2008 10:16pm

  Despite Tuesday’s tragedy near Eilat, which claimed the lives of 24 Russian tourists, Russian tourism to Israel is expected to continue climbing.

• Russian Jewish group goes after Georgia

  December 17, 2008 2:53am

  For four months the World Congress of Russian Jewry has acted alone in its quest to cast Georgia as the aggressor in its August war with Russia.

• Eurasian group meets on ethnic autonomy

  December 14, 2008 6:23pm

  A Jewish umbrella group met in the predominantly Muslim republic of Tatarstan to discuss the autonomy of religious organizations in the Russian state.

• ORT schools in FSU suffer cutbacks

  December 12, 2008 12:13am

  The ORT network of schools in the former Soviet Union is the latest to feel the financial pinch.

• Court: Neo-Nazis can march in Moscow

  December 11, 2008 7:10pm

  The Moscow city government will allow two neo-Nazi groups to march.

• Russian man gets prison for anti-Semitism

  December 11, 2008 6:42pm

  A Russian man was sentenced to prison for posting anti-Semitic slogans on an Internet forum.

• Rabbi Schneier attends Alexy II funeral

  December 11, 2008 6:34pm

  An American rabbi joined Russian Jewish leaders in paying respects to the head of the Russian Orthodox church.