While Putin’s invasion remains popular among the general population, the great majority of Jews in Russia did not and do not support the war. Within the Jewish community in Moscow, I took the ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin during a meeting outside Moscow on Oct. 30. (Gavriil Grigorov/EPA-EFE/Shutterstock) Leon Aron is a senior fellow at the American ...

Last week came news that Russian President Vladimir Putin was threatening to shut down the offices of the Jewish Agency for Israel in Russia. For those unfamiliar with it, the agency is a ...

The fact that ethnically, Russian, Ethiopian and Yemenite Jews are diverse, yet share the same heritage, is ignored by Putin’s grotesque classical antisemitic characterization of Jews that is ...

Putin’s recent rhetoric has been jarring because, despite everything else he has done, he has not tried to whip up public sentiment against Jews. During his 2005 visit to Israel—the first ever ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin claimed that other Jews think Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky is not Jewish, despite his having “Jewish blood.” “I have a lot of Jewish friends,” Putin said on ...

Sergey Shoigu, a key figure in Putin's orbit, was defense minister for 12 years. LONDON -- Russian President Vladimir Putin on Sunday night carried out one of his biggest cabinet shake-ups in ...