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The number of Jews in Russia is growing

2025-02-14

Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited

Text taken from a news article which appeared in bb.lv

Commentary by Russian military journalist Boris Rozhin is in italics.
[ColonelCassad] Many people may find themselves in a severe identity conflict.

The Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs informs on its Russian-language Telegram channel that an Israeli citizen who also holds Russian citizenship (regardless of whether he or she holds such citizenship and a Russian passport or merely has the right to Russian citizenship in accordance with Russian law) and who enters, resides, or will reside in the territory of the Russian Federation is subject to Russian laws and regulations, including decisions on conscription of citizens into the Russian army, as well as requirements for entry into and exit from the country.

According to local law, an Israeli citizen who holds Russian citizenship (even if he or she has never held a Russian passport) must enter and exit the Russian Federation using a Russian passport.

Thus, an Israeli citizen who has Russian citizenship and does not have a valid Russian passport will most likely be allowed to enter Russia, but his departure from the country may be delayed for the period required by local law to confirm his citizenship and issue a valid Russian travel document, and he will not be able to leave Russia until he receives a Russian travel document (internal and foreign passports), a process that can take many months.

And cost much money: some for fees, more to encourage functionaries to function less slowly.

Israeli citizens who may have Russian citizenship are advised to take this information into account, check and settle citizenship issues BEFORE arriving in Russia.

This also will cost money, and will be even harder to do from a distance.

Meanwhile, the number of Jews living in the Russian Federation has increased since the beginning of the "special military operation", including all those who left Russia after the escalation in Ukraine began, have returned.

All? No likely.

This was previously stated by the President of the Federation of Jewish Communities of Russia (FJCR), General Director of the Jewish Museum and Tolerance Center, Rabbi Alexander Boroda at a press conference dedicated to the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz.

The head of the FEOR reported on the growth in the number of Jews, noting that "many people leave to obtain Israeli citizenship, and then return to Russia."

Some who go to Israel find it not to their taste for a variety of reasons that add up to it’s not like home. This is common among expats and émigrés of all nationalities — no matter where they come from or their destination — and says nothing whatsoever about Russia.

"There was some activity in leaving for Israel with the beginning of the Second World War, but a short period of time passed, and those who left, in fact, all returned.

There was activity in leaving for Israel, among other parts of the world, since the so-called First Aliyah or immigration wave (1881 - 1903). There were five aliyahs, the last ending when Israel became independent in 1948. There have been two aliyahs from the former Soviet Union since then, one starting in the 1970s and the second in the 1990s. A number have come to escape the current nonsense in Ukraine but I’m not sure it’s big enough to count as a proper wave. Most of the immigrants did not return home, though some went on to America or settled in Europe.

Then there were the events associated with October 7, with the open war with Hamas, and I would say that even more Jews came to Russia than left since the beginning of the Second World War," Boroda explained.

Oy vey. And they said that the best people of THIS country are leaving for their historical homeland...They traded Haifa and Tel Aviv for Moscow and St. Petersburg.

Hard numbers or it didn’t happen.

Posted by:badanov

#1 I was talking to a russian once and he was telling my the Jewish Oblast is mostly inhibited by non-jewish Slavs. I was just double-checking this factoid, and yes - there's less than a 1000 jews left in the Oblast.

Posted by: mossomo 2025-02-14 12:31

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