Jewish group cuts funding for Kiev office over criticism of Putin An organization representing Russian-speaking Jews cut funding for its Kiev office because of that office’s criticism of Russia’s actions in Ukraine.
Russian Jewish pupils get alternative date for matriculation test Russia’s education ministry has agreed to provide Jewish students an alternative date for a matriculation exam that took place on the Shavuot holiday.
For Ukrainian Jews, far-right’s electoral defeat is proof that Putin lied Petro Poroshenko’s trouncing of his right-wing rivals in Ukraine’s presidential election shows that anti-Semites are not on the rise, Jewish leaders say.