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@MarkCollett JEWISH POWER IN RUSSIA REVEALED BY A JEWISH WRITER (EDUARD TOPOL) & JEWISH BILLIONAIRE BORIS BEREZOVSKY - Introduction note by IHR: “But in the midst of this widespread economic misery, a small minority has grown fabulously wealthy since the end of the Soviet era. Although Jews make up no more than three or four percent of Russia's population, they wield enormous economic and political power in that vast and troubled country. "At least half of the powerful 'oligarchs' who control a significant percentage of the economy are Jewish," the Los Angeles Times has cautiously noted. Almost certainly the most important of the "oligarchs" is Boris A. Berezovsky, a former mathematics professor who heads the Logovaz financial-industrial group, which includes automobile imports and sales, aviation, oil and media. In 1997 Forbes magazine ranked him as one of the 100 richest people in the world, with an estimated net worth of $3 billion… The second most powerful business figure is probably Vladimir Gusinsky. In addition to heading the "Most" banking group, he is also called "the Russian Rupert Murdoch" because of his large media empire, which includes the daily newspaper Sevodnya, the weekly news magazine Itogi, and the NTV television network. Gusinsky is also chairman of the Russian Jewish Congress. Russia's current prime minister is Yevgeny Primakov, who was promoted from his post as foreign minister in September 1998. During the final phase of the Soviet era, he headed the KGB intelligence and security service, and served as a Politburo member. Early in his career, he dropped the obviously Jewish-sounding name he was born with, Yevgeny Finkelstein. Many other Jews have played major roles in Russia's governmental and political life in recent years, among them Alexander Livshitz and Grigory Yavlinsky, presidential chief of staff Anatoly Chubais, deputy prime minister Boris Nemtsov, and prime minister Sergei Kiriyenko.” Eduard Topol’s extraordinary "Open Letter to Berezovksy, Gusinsky, Smolensky, Khodorkovsky and other Oligarchs," [This article was translated to be featured in the The Journal of Historical Review Vol. 17 (1998): Key excerpt; Topol: "This is to say that for the first time in a thousand years, since the first Jews settled in Russia, we hold the real power in this country…” Berezovsky responded: "Of course, as you see, financial power is in Jewish hands…” http://www.ihr.org/jhr/v17/v17n6p13_Michaels.html https://www.google.ca/books/edition/The_Journal_of_Historical_Review/96vvAAAAMAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&bsq=Of+course,+as+you+see,+financial+power+is+in+Jewish+hands&dq=Of+course,+as+you+see,+financial+power+is+in+Jewish+hands&printsec=frontcover