FJCR – Johnson's Russia List

Sokolovsky charges of God denial “absurd” – Federation of Jewish communities

May 12, 2017 JRL Russia List Corruption, Law, Police, Courts, Crime, Human Rights, Religion

MOSCOW. May 11 (Interfax) – The Federation of Jewish Communities of Russia (FJCR) backed the court ruling in the case against the “Pokemon catcher” Ruslan Sokolovsky, but called some of the charges against him absurd. “That the judge chose a penalty not involving incarceration is, in my view, a positive fact because prison has not yet made anyone better. Whenever […]

Russian society must denounce Stalin once and for all – Federation of Jewish Communities

March 29, 2017 JRL Russia List Politics, Government, Protests, Elections

File Photo of Vladimir Lenin and Joseph Stalin

MOSCOW. March 28 (Interfax) – The Federation of Jewish Communities of Russia (FJCR) has called Stalin a Herod who was exterminating his own people. “Stalin must remain to generations a Herod who built the GULAG, BAM [Baikal-Amur Mainline], who expanded the railway and won the Second World War, the man responsible for mass deaths of his own people. Murderer!” Boruch […]