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Government faces fresh calls to outlaw IRGC after proscription of Wagner Group

The Russian paramilitary group was outlawed in the UK by Home Secretary Suella Braverman

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Government faces fresh calls to outlaw IRGC after proscription of Wagner Group

Businessman Yevgeny Prigozhin shows Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin his school lunch factory outside Saint Petersburg on September 20, 2010. - Kremlin-linked businessman Yevgeny Prigozhin has filed a lawsuit in an EU court to remove him from the bloc's sanctions list, his company said on December 15, 2020. The European Union in October sanctioned Prigozhin -- nicknamed "Putin's chef" because his company Concord has catered for the Kremlin -- accusing him of undermining peace in Libya by supporting the Wagner Group private military company. (Photo by Alexey DRUZHININ / SPUTNIK / AFP) (Photo by ALEXEY DRUZHININ/SPUTNIK/AFP via Getty Images)

Yevgeny Prigozhin, caterer turned warlord presumed dead had Jewish ancestry

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Evan Gershkovich: Russia extends Jewish reporter's detention by three months

Evan Gershkovich: Russia extends Jewish reporter's detention by three months

By Eliana Jordan

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Jewish oligarch fails in bid to overturn sanctions

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Osip Mandelstam: A Biography review - The poet who dared to criticise Stalin

Osip Mandelstam: A Biography review - The poet who dared to criticise Stalin

By Mark Glanville

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Ruins of one of the world's oldest synagogues found in Russia

Ruins of one of the world's oldest synagogues found in Russia

By Richard Percival

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Russian opposition activist Vladimir Kara-Murza sits on a bench inside a defendants' cage during a hearing at the Basmanny court in Moscow on October 10, 2022. - Vladimir Kara-Murza was jailed in April for denouncing the Kremlin's Ukraine offensive and has been charged last week with high treason - the charges which could keep him behind bars for two decades. (Photo by NATALIA KOLESNIKOVA / AFP) (Photo by NATALIA KOLESNIKOVA/AFP via Getty Images)

UK sanctions Russian figures after British Jewish Putin critic jailed for 25 years

By Richard Percival

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Rafael Behr

The Russia I fell in love with is now just a dream

The spirit of Putin’s nationalism and fascistic propaganda has contaminated my memories

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July 20, 2023 12:58

The Russia I fell in love with is now just a dream

Early signs of a mass Jewish exodus from Ukraine and Russia says new report

A study of european Jewry did not find evidence of a mass exodus outside those two countries

By Simon Rocker

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July 6, 2023 11:26

Two orthodox jews are seen arriving are seen arriving at the Medyka pedestrian border crossing in eastern Poland on February 25, 2022, fleeing the conflict in their country, one day after Russia launched a military attack on its neighbour Ukraine. (Photo by Wojtek RADWANSKI / AFP) (Photo by WOJTEK RADWANSKI/AFP via Getty Images)

Former Moscow Chief Rabbi branded 'foreign agent' by Russia

Pinchas Goldschmidt fled Russia last year after pressure to support Putin's war

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July 4, 2023 09:08

FRANKFURT AM MAIN, GERMANY - SEPTEMBER 26: Pinchas Goldschmidt, president of the Conference of European Rabbis, during the ordination ceremony of Nosson Kaplan, Benjamin Kochan, Jochanan Guggenheim, to become Orthodox rabbis at the Westend synagogue, on September 26, 2016 in Frankfurt, Germany. The three men, who completed their rabbinical studies at the Rabbiner Seminar zu Berlin and are the first Orthodox rabbis to be ordained in Frankfurt since World War II, will serve Jewish communities across Germany. (Photo by Hannelore Foerster/Getty Images)

Russia to establish embassy outpost in Jerusalem

The new consulate will supplement its embassy in Tel Aviv

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June 19, 2023 09:16

Russia's national flag is seen lowered on top of the Russian embassy in Tel Aviv, on December 20, 2016, following an attack that led to the death of the Russian ambassador in Turkey a day earlier. (Photo by AHMAD GHARABLI / AFP) (Photo by AHMAD GHARABLI/AFP via Getty Images)

Zelensky has helped slash antisemitism in Ukraine says ADL

Nearly a third of Ukrainians agree with common antisemitic tropes and ideas

By Menachem Wecker

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May 31, 2023 15:51

Ukainian President Volodymyr Zelensky stands in the town of Bucha, northwest of the Ukrainian capital Kyiv, on April 4, 2022. - Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky said on April 3, 2022 the Russian leadership was responsible for civilian killings in Bucha, outside Kyiv, where bodies were found lying in the street after the town was retaken by the Ukrainian army. (Photo by RONALDO SCHEMIDT / AFP) (Photo by RONALDO SCHEMIDT/AFP via Getty Images)

Ben Judah

Putin has destroyed the Russian Jewish revival

Jews feel the impact of the darker, more authoritarian state brought on by the Ukraine war

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May 18, 2023 11:02

Russia's President Vladimir Putin (L) speaks with Russia's chief Rabbi Berel Lazar at a ceremony marking the handover of the Schneerson library at the Jewish Museum and Tolerance Centre in Moscow, on June 13, 2013 . Putin expressed today hope that the problem of a disputed Jewish archive, known in Russia as the Schneerson library, claimed by the United States was finally put to rest as he visited the rare collection in the newly opened Jewish Museum in Moscow. AFP PHOTO / YURI KADOBNOV (Photo credit should read YURI KADOBNOV/AFP via Getty Images)

Joe Biden hails ‘courage’ of Jewish American reporter detained in Russia

Evan Gershkovich was arrested by security forces in March

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April 30, 2023 12:29

US President Joe Biden speaks during the House Democratic Caucus Issues Conference at the Hyatt Regency Inner Harbor in Baltimore, Maryland, on March 1, 2023. (Photo by Andrew Caballero-Reynolds / AFP) (Photo by ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS/AFP via Getty Images)

Israel to provide Ukraine with missile warning system - but no Iron Dome

The system will first be deployed in Kyiv, then expand to other Ukrainian cities if deemed a success

By Tash Mosheim

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April 21, 2023 10:43

TOPSHOT - A woman stands in front of a destroyed building after a Russian missile attack in the town of Vasylkiv, near Kyiv, on February 27, 2022. - Ukraine's foreign minister said on February 27, that Kyiv would not buckle at talks with Russia over its invasion, accusing President Vladimir Putin of seeking to increase "pressure" by ordering his nuclear forces on high alert. (Photo by Dimitar DILKOFF / AFP) (Photo by DIMITAR DILKOFF/AFP via Getty Images)

Dominic Green

By Dominic Green

Evan Gershkovich is just a pawn in Russia’s cynical hostage game

Wall Street Journal journalist Evan Gershkovich was detained days after US authorities announced espionage charges against a Russian national

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April 20, 2023 10:51

2PNC0JY Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich stands in a glass cage in a courtroom at the Moscow City Court, in Moscow, Russia, on Tuesday, April 18, 2023. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko)

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