Photo Illustration by Luis G. Rendon/The Daily Beast/GettyPresident Vladimir Putin was the rarest of things: a Russian strongman who was proud to boast of his positive relationship with the Jewish community after centuries of pogroms and antisemitism which blighted both imperial Russia and the Soviet Union.Putin was, in 2005, the first Russian leader to visit Israel, where he staged an emotional reunion with a former high school teacher. He elevated his Jewish childhood friends Arkady and Boris
Photo Illustration by Thomas Levinson/The Daily Beast/GettyThe Israel-Hamas war has activated fault lines all over the world, including in Moscow, where the Kremlin’s most influential propagandist, Vladimir Solovyov, has found himself in the middle of a media firestorm spurred by the conflict.First, Solovyov—who previously vowed that as a Jew, he would fight for Israel if it was ever involved in a war—went back on his promise. He claimed that his duty is to be with Russia as it fights in Ukraine
NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg announced on Sept. 29 that the military alliance had approved additional peacekeeping forces in Kosovo after unrest along the Kosovo-Serbia border that left four people dead.
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