Index to news stories on the Russian-Jewish “Oligarchs”

 

• Aug 5, 2004, letter: Uri K, of Moscow, Russia, speaks up for the embattled oligarchs, suggesting that things are not always criminal as they seem
• July 26, 2004: Yukos empire near collapse, as Moscow asks Israel to hand over oligarch Leonid Nevzlin, wanted for murder
• Links: The “Russian” Mafia in Australia | this item was broadcast on Australian radio, but somebody un-named found time to lodge a complaint with the ABA [Hard to understand what could have motivated the complaint] | They’ve been shooting each other lately, and others who have gotten in the way | They have tried to keep it out of the media | Background on the mobster Radev 
• July 17, 2004: Murdered Klebnikov was investiging murder of Vladislav Listyev, Berezovsky was a suspect
• July 14, 2004: US deports Vyacheslav Ivankov, Russian mafia leader, to Moscow at request of Russian authorities
• Reader’s Letter: Brian Hillman accuses Mr Irving of anti-Semitism on the Russian oligarchs
• Jul 10, 2004: Oligarchs whack Moscow whistleblower Pavel Klebnikov | Shooting of editor may be revenge for delving into Russia’s rich | Berezovsky sneers that victim ‘was like a bull in a china shop’
• Jun 27, 2004: Mikhail Khodorkovsky, former chief executive of Russia’s oil giant Yukos, went on trial, goes on trial in courtroom cage
• Interview with unrepentant Russian billionaire Oligarch Vladimir Potanin: No love lost on Russia’s rich
• Russia oil fight Trial opens for jailed Russian billionaire Khodorkovsky
• President Vladimir Putin to announce ‘de-oligarchization’ in anti-monopoly drive, single out Mikhail Fridman’s Alfa Group
• Leutheusser-Schnarrenberger arrived in Moscow to act as an impartial observer of trial of Mikhail Khodorkovsky
• Forbes list of Russian billionaires features nine Jewish tycoons : fears that this may reinforce anti-Semitic stereotypes
• How the ‘Golden Horde’ hoarded its way to top of Russia’s rich list
• Police raid Sörös office as oil billionaire is refused bail
• Arrested oil tycoon passed shares to banker
• Greek court rejects Gusinsky extradition
• Russian fraudster Boris Berezovsky granted asylum by Tony Blair’s government
• Letter
• Reuters reports that The World Jewish Congress asked Interpol not to arrest Jewish Russian media magnate Vladimir Gusinsky
• Apr 25, 2001: Russian media tycoon Vladimir Gusinsky has flown from Spain to Israel, apparently in a new bid to escape the clutches of Moscow prosecutors
• Forward: Kremlin Targets Jewish Tycoons in War on Critics
• First Russian International Corporate Philanthropic Foundation (of Khodorkovsky and Rothschild): “I am launching the Foundation [First Russian International Corporate Philanthropic Foundation] in London to highlight the international nature of the Foundation’s aims and to create an infrastructure from which the next generation of Russia’s leaders will emerge.”
• Forward accuses: Kremlin Targets Jewish Tycoons in War on Critics
• Greek Court Rejects Gusinksy Extradition
• Happy foresight Arrested oil tycoon had passed shares to banker Lord Rothschild
• Their favorite w(h)ine Berezovsky Says Fraud Probe Is an Anti-Semitic Act 
• More outrage George Sörös compares Bush with Nazis | Sörös shocks Jewish elite, says Bush, Sharon to blame for global rise in anti-Semitism | Putin’s police raid Sörös’s Open Society foundation in Moscow in the investigation against Khodokorvsky
• Dec 2000: Knesset’s Avraham Burg urges world lawmakers to help free “Russian Jewish media baron”
• April 2005: Putin visits Israel, but will not be discussing the criminal Russian oligarchs whom Israel is sheltering although they stole billions from the Russian people before fleeing
• Russian prosecution accuses Jewish oligarch Leonid Nevzlin of ordering 10 murders
• Risking outrage – Aug 2007: The Economist identifies the common denominator in oligarchs

Mikhail Khodorkovsky

Platon Lebedev

Boris Berezovsky

A CORRESPONDENT writes: “Some of these crooks have fled Russia for the protection of Israel, where defrauding Gentiles is not considered a crime. Lebedev and Khodorkovski are behind Russian bars because prosecutors convinced the Judges they too would flee the country.

“This site, for instance, http://globalfire.tv quotes German news magazine Der Spiegel:

  “Roman Abramovich (above) is known to be the second richest man in Russia with an estimated cash reserve of 5,7 billion Dollars. He is one of the youngest amongst the Oligarchs, the resources barons.” [Der Spiegel, 29/2003, p. 156]

  LIKE Khodorkovsky, Lebedev ,and other Oligarchs, he also made his wealth by deceiving the Russian people. In the British media, Abramovich was never mentioned as the son of Jewish parents from Saratov, but was always politically correct described as a ‘Russian’. All the more surprised he and his new Jewish managers, Jevgeni Shwidler, Richard Creitzman and Jevgeni Tenenbaum must have been to hear unpleasant shouting from the ranks of the football supporters at the Chelsea stadium [which Abramovich has bought]: “Gas a Jew, Jew, Jew / put him in the oven / cook him through” [Der Spiegel, 29/2003, p. 156]