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  • Pro-Kremlin youth group marks Holocaust day

    January 31, 2006 10:00am

    A Kremlin-backed youth group that previously alarmed human rights watchers with its attacks against liberal politicians has held a Holocaust-remembrance event.

  • Attacks in Russia prompt new security plans

    January 19, 2006 10:00am

    Two recent attacks at synagogues in Russia have raised the issue of who’s responsible for security at Russian Jewish sites.

  • List of attacks on Moscow synagogues

    January 12, 2006 10:00am

    Synagogues in the Russian capital have been attacked numerous times in the past several years.

  • Jewish Agency to get boost in FSU

    December 27, 2005 10:00am

    A Russian Jewish financier is poised to give a $50 million donation that may prove critical to the Jewish Agency for Israel’s activities in the former Soviet Union.

  • Pro-Kremlin party wins big in Moscow

    December 5, 2005 10:00am

    A Kremlin-backed party won big in elections for the Moscow city legislature, shutting out extremist parties that had used anti-Semitic rhetoric.

  • Russia won´t let rabbi back in

    November 22, 2005 10:00am

    Moscow´s chief rabbi will not be allowed to return to Russia for now, the country´s Internal Affairs Ministry has decided, citing unspecified "security reasons" that critics deride as absurd.

  • Russian Jewish group gets new leader

    November 15, 2005 10:00am

    The new leadership of the Russian Jewish Congress says it has the expertise to help the group raise more money for domestic Jewish needs and better represent Russian Jews abroad. But whether the new leaders will catapult the RJC back into the forefront of

  • Russian Jewish group wracked by turmoil

    October 10, 2005 9:00am

    Unrest in a leading Russian Jewish organization calls into question who will speak for secular Russian Jews.

  • Centers open in Russia, Moldova

    September 27, 2005 9:00am

    The opening of two Jewish centers in St. Petersburg, Russia and Kishinev, Moldova, ushered in a new page in the history of these two communities in the former Soviet Union. But the completion of the facilities also highlighted some of the discomfort local

  • Russia drops probe of Jewish group

    June 29, 2005 9:00am

    Following a storm of protest from Jewish groups and Israeli politicians, Russian officials have dropped a probe into a Russian Jewish group for publishing a religious Jewish book — but the incident has left Jewish groups worried.