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Wednesday, December 25, 2013

Al Ahram obsesses over Russian oligarch's (alleged) Judaism

Egypt's popular daily, Al-Ahram, has an article about Vladimir Putin's recent release of former Russian billionaire Mikhail Khodorkovsky from prison.

While most news sources say that the release was a PR move ahead of the Russia-hosted Winter Olympics for a prisoner that Amnesty called a "prisoner of conscience," Al-Ahram knows better.

We should briefly point out that Mikhail Khodorkovsky is a Jewish billionaire whose ascent to the summit of world's richest people in the Forbes list came from benefiting from infamous and controversial privatization decisions, the outcome of which concentrated the fortunes of Russia's oil and gas and metals to a handful of entrepreneurs, Jews for the most part.
Khodorkovsky's father is Jewish but his mother is not.

The only sites I've seen emphasize the supposed Jewish control of Russia's energy are the usual antisemitic sites like Rense - and Al Ahram.