In the Kemerovo region began to write denunciations of the Jews Residents of the Kemerovo region appealed to the governor Sergei Tsivilev with a demand to check the activities of the Jewish movement “Chabad” in the region and Russia. In a video message published by the movement “OSVR Council of Citizens of Kuzbass”, they demanded to “consider the existence of grounds for recognition as a foreign agent” Rabbi Menachem Rabinovich of Novokuznetsk. The initiators of the appeal demanded to check “Taniya” – the fundamental book on Hasidism – “for signs of extremism.” The Chabad movement is also called Lubavitcher Hasidism. Its representative is Chief Rabbi of Russia Berl Lazar. According to Lazar, 90% of the rabbis working in the Jewish communities of Russia belong to Chabad. In the fall of 2022, Alexey Pavlov, Assistant Secretary of the Security Council of Russia, Nikolai Patrushev, published an article “What is cooked in the witch’s cauldron. Neo-pagan cults have gained strength in Ukraine.” In it, Pavlov called the Chabad Lubavitch movement an ultra-orthodox sect and argued that its main principle was “superiority over all nations and peoples.” Pavlov was fired in January 2023. According to Moscow Times Kompromat 2.0 @kompr
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U.S. wants to confiscate property that prosecutors say belongs to Viktor Vekselberg U.S. federal prosecutors in Manhattan filed a civil lawsuit on Friday to confiscate $75 million worth of property in New York and Florida that they say belongs to Russian oligarch Viktor Vekselberg, who is under US sanctions. Reuters mentions two objects – an apartment on Park Avenue in Manhattan and an estate in Southampton, New York. Earlier, the US Department of Justice confiscated Vekselberg’s luxury yacht “Tango” worth $90 million. Meanwhile, the Brooklyn prosecutor’s office reports that Muscovite Ilya Balakaev has been charged with supplying American communications equipment for the FSB and a certain North Korean official in circumvention of US sanctions. Since the beginning of the Russian invasion of Ukraine a year ago, the US Department of Justice has confiscated more than $500 million worth of property and other assets from sanctions evaders and supporters of the Russian government, CNN reports. The search for the assets of such people is carried out by the US Department of Justice’s KleptoCapture group, which was specially created in March and consists of federal prosecutors, investigators and analysts. In total, the agency reportedly confiscated two mega-yachts, four aircraft and a dozen more properties of Russian oligarchs and others. According to the BBC Russian service Compromising 2.0 @kompr
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Shoigu hides the real losses of the Russian army “My estimate is approaching the Pentagon’s estimate – in the region of two hundred thousand losses, it is quite realistic. 50, maybe even 60 thousand dead, including prisoners, who are not always taken into account in the overall statistics. Military analyst Yan Matveev on the losses of the Russian army during the year of the war. According to Navalny Life Compromising 2.0 @kompr