🪙 Nov. 01, 2023: The Daily Beast > By the 1990s, the situation changed dramatically for the better: Jewish businessmen and politicians founded the Russian Jewish Congress and oligarchs donated millions of dollars to synagogues and Jewish centers across the country. - #Russia

 Anna Nemtsova

Published Nov. 01, 2023 4:49 AM EDT 

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Putin personally supported Russian Jews for decades, especially the Chabad-affiliated community who were loyal to him. Russia ranked better than countries like Hungary and Ukraine on the Global index of Antisemitism. In 2019, Putin famously stood on stage outside the Jewish Museum in Moscow between Victor Vekselberg, a Jewish oligarch and donor to local synagogues, and the Russian chief rabbi, Berel Lazar.

Now the concerns about violent antisemitism have returned. “We fear antisemitic pogroms by Tatar and Bashkir Muslims even more than by Muslims of Northern Caucasus, since these republics are much closer to Moscow and they are very rich,” Grigory told The Daily Beast.

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