Russia

Asher Cherkasskiy has been propelled to unlikely fame as one of the few religious Jews to join a pro-Kiev militia ASHER CHERKASSKIY (pictured) lived a modest life in peaceful southern Ukraine, observing Orthodox Jewish custom and putting his three children through religious school. But when war…

Russian president’s informal suggestion met with some hostility and derision by Jews, though Moshe Kantor of the European Jewish Congress, with whom Putin was meeting, laughed and then praised Putin for “fighting those who target Jews.” VLADIMIR PUTIN said Tuesday that Jews…

AS AMERICA slips into an unnecessary Cold War 2.0, some familiar sides are shaping up. There is a universalist regime bent on spreading its belief system around the globe through violent insurrection. There is another side that has a strong tie between its security state and nominal claims to religious…

The Russian people don’t make much of Christmas like Americans do. The big holiday for them is celebration of the New Year. The days are already getting longer and Spring can’t be far off… IT’S A VERY nice tradition — to meet Father Frost in Moscow before the New Year’s…

Rogozin’s response: “The time will come when they will meet me with flowers.” EDITOR’S NOTE: Rogozin is famous for saying “There is an enormous distance between Europe and the Third World. There is a new civilization emerging in the Third World that thinks that the…

Cold War plan was prepared in the summer of 1956 and made available this week FIRST CAME Moscow and Leningrad (now St. Petersburg), with more than 300 targeted sites or Designated Ground Zeros (DGZs) in those two cities alone. Then there was Warsaw and Beijing, and an astonishing 1,200 other cities.…

IN HIS address before the Knesset Plenum on Wednesday, Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko said his country and Israel ”have a long history, but they are relatively young on the political map. Thousands of years and hundreds of threads connect our countries.” The Ukrainian nation, he said, ”has…

RUSSIAN STATE advertising promoting the birth of more White children emerged in May of 2006, when Vladimir Putin began to make Russia’s demographic crisis Problem Number One. A year prior, the net human decrease in this country amounted to an alarming six hundred thousand people. At this rate, Russia…

AT THE INITIATIVE of Russian President Vladimir Putin (pictured), the Duma (Russian Parliament) has legislated a law outlawing “distorted and/or extremist” commentary of Scriptures. The purpose of the unusual law, it is widely understood, is the prevention of cynical advantage…