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The Russian Jewish Congress is a non-profit charitable fund and Russian Jewish organization. It was established in 1996 by a group of Jewish businessmen, workers and religious figures with the goal of reviving Jewish life in
Russia Russia (, , ), or the Russian Federation, is a List of transcontinental countries, transcontinental country spanning Eastern Europe and North Asia, Northern Asia. It is the List of countries and dependencies by area, largest country in the ...
. It unites some of the influential and prosperous
Jews in Russia The history of the Jews in Russia and areas historically connected with it goes back at least 1,500 years. Jews in Russia have historically constituted a large religious and ethnic diaspora; the Russian Empire at one time hosted the largest pop ...
, high-standing state officers, businessmen and actors of science and culture. The RJC supports existing communities and fosters the creation of new communities. At the same time helps them to strengthen and to find their own sources of funding and stipulates terms for independently allocating funds for the local communities’ needs.


Leaders

Its administrating bodies are the Presidium, Council of Directors and Public Council. Heads of the Congress include
Vladimir Resin Vladimir Iosifovich Resin ( be, Уладзімір Іосіфавіч Рэсін; russian: Влади́мир Ио́сифович Ре́син; born 21 February 1936) is a Russian politician who was the acting mayor of Moscow, appointed by R ...
,
Mikhail Fridman Mikhail Maratovich Fridman (also transliterated Mikhail Friedman; russian: Михаил Маратович Фридман; he, מיכאיל פרידמן; born 21 April 1964) is a Ukrainian-born, Russian–Israeli businessman, billionaire, and ...
,
Yevgenia Albats Yevgenia Markovna Albats (russian: Евге́ния Ма́рковна Альба́ц, born 5 September 1958Vitaly Ginzburg Vitaly Lazarevich Ginzburg, ForMemRS (russian: Вита́лий Ла́заревич Ги́нзбург, link=no; 4 October 1916 – 8 November 2009) was a Russian physicist who was honored with the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2003, together with ...
,
Yuliy Gusman Yuli Solomonovich Gusman (russian: Юлий Соломонович Гусман) (born 8 August 1943, Baku) is a USSR, Soviet, Russian and Azerbaijani film director and actor. He is the founder and CEO of the prestigious Nika Award. Life and care ...
,
Andrey Kozyrev Andrei Vladimirovich Kozyrev (russian: Андре́й Влади́мирович Ко́зырев; born 27 March 1951) is a Russian politician who served as the former and the first Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation under Pres ...
,
Berel Lazar Shlomo Dov Pinchas Lazar (born May 19, 1964), better known as Berel Lazar, is an Orthodox, Chabad-Lubavitch Hasidic rabbi. He began his service in Russia in 1990. Known for his friendship with Vladimir Putin, since 2000, he has been a Chief Rabbi ...
,
Henri Reznik Henri Markovich Reznik, also Genri Reznik (russian: Ге́нри Ма́ркович Ре́зник; born 11 May 1938, in Leningrad) is a prominent Russian lawyer, former criminal investigator and criminologist. He chaired the presidium of the Mosc ...
, Vladimir Solovyov, Gennady Khazanov,
Matvey Ganapolsky Matvey Yuryevich Ganapolsky (born Margolis; russian: link=no, Матвей Юрьевич Ганапольский, uk, Матвій Юрійович Ганапольський; born 14 December 1953 in Lviv) is a Russian and Ukrainian journali ...
,
Mikhail Zhvanetsky ) , birth_date = , birth_place = Odesa, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union (now Ukraine) , death_date = , death_place = Moscow, Russia , genre = Satire , subject = , influences = , influen ...
, David Iakobachvili and others (data of the late 2004). Checkup committee is headed by the deputy CEO of
RAO UES OAO RAO UES (OAO Unified Energy System of Russia; russian: ЕЭС России or russian: Единая Энергетическая Система) was an electric power holding company in Russia. It controlled about 70% of Russia's installed el ...
Yakov Urinson.


Presidents

*1996-2001:
Vladimir Gusinsky Vladimir Aleksandrovich Gusinsky (russian: Владимир Александрович Гусинский, ; born 6 October 1952) is a Russian media tycoon. He founded the Media-Most holding company that included the NTV free-to-air channel, ...
*2001:
Leonid Nevzlin Leonid Borisovich Nevzlin (russian: Леони́д Бори́сович Не́взлин; he, לאוניד בוריסוביץ' נבזלין, born 21 September 1959) is a Russian-born Israeli businessman, investor, and philanthropist. Nevzlin oc ...
*2001-2005:
Yevgeny Satanovsky Yevgeni, Yevgeny, Yevgenii or Yevgeniy (russian: Евгений), also transliterated as Evgeni, Evgeny, Evgenii or Evgeniy, is the Russian form of the masculine given name Eugene. People with the name include: :''Note: Occasionally, a person may b ...
*2004-2005:
Vladimir Slutsker Vladimir Iosifovich Sloutsker (russian: Владимир Иосифович Слуцкер; born Moscow Moscow ( , US chiefly ; rus, links=no, Москва, r=Moskva, p=mɐskˈva, a=Москва.ogg) is the capital and largest city of R ...
*2005-2009:
Viacheslav Kantor Viatcheslav Moshe Kantor (russian: link=no, Вячеслав Моше Кантор, born on September 8, 1953 in Moscow) is a Russian businessman and philanthropist who has close ties to the Vladimir Putin regime in Russia. Kantor heads the Acro ...
*2009–present: Yuri Kanner


Israel National Memorial to the Red Army

In 2011, the Russian Jewish Congress supported the construction of the Israel National Memorial to the Red Army in the city of
Netanya Netanya (also known as Natanya, he, נְתַנְיָה) is a city in the Northern Central District of Israel, and is the capital of the surrounding Sharon plain. It is north of Tel Aviv, and south of Haifa, between Poleg stream and Wingate I ...
a.k.a.
Victory Monument in Netanya The Victory Monument in Netanya is a memorial marking the Red Army's victory over Nazi Germany in World War II. The monument was erected by a decision of the Government of Israel with the consent of the Russian government. It was unveiled in a 20 ...
. The organization donated $500,000 towards the construction of the monument, which opened on June 25, 2012. https://www.jpost.com/jewish-world/jewish-features/at-putins-side-an-army-of-jewish-billionaires


See also

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Federation of Jewish Communities of the CIS Federation of Jewish Communities of the CIS (FJC) is a Jewish organisation dedicated to restoring Jewish life, culture and religion in the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS), the former Soviet Union. The FJC was founded on August 1, 1997 ...
.


References


External links


RJC website

RJC website
Rabbinical organizations Jewish organizations based in Russia Jewish organizations established in 1996 Vladimir Gusinsky {{Russia-stub