The mayor of Moscow said creating a favorable atmosphere for Jews in the Russian capital was his leading achievement. “An atmosphere has been created in Moscow so that Jews would not want to leave for Israel,” Yuri Luzhkov said at a ceremony in Jerusalem during which a city square was named for the Russian capital.
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