{"id":29060,"date":"2025-08-03T07:28:12","date_gmt":"2025-08-03T11:28:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/?p=29060"},"modified":"2025-08-03T07:31:40","modified_gmt":"2025-08-03T11:31:40","slug":"president-vladimir-putin-russian-chief-rabbi-berl-lazar-how-chabad-controls-the-kremlin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/?p=29060","title":{"rendered":"<h2><b><span style=\"color: #000000;\">President Vladimir Putin &amp; Russian Chief Rabbi Berl Lazar: How Chabad completely controls the Kremlin<\/span><\/b><\/h2>"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Chabad Jews in Russia control Vladimir Putin, who is surrounded by the Jewish Oligarchs<\/h1>\n<p><!--more-->Marica Micallef<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-29061\" src=\"http:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Screenshot-2025-08-03-at-7.25.36-AM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"488\" height=\"318\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Screenshot-2025-08-03-at-7.25.36-AM.png 488w, https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Screenshot-2025-08-03-at-7.25.36-AM-300x195.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 488px) 100vw, 488px\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-0909553 elementor-widget elementor-widget-theme-post-content\" data-id=\"0909553\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"theme-post-content.default\">\n<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\" style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<p>The following piece is taken from an extract of the English translation of a chapter from the book \u201cThe Jewish Syndrome\u20143\u201d of Eduard Hodos, with editorial comments signified by [-Ed] supplied by the original internet publisher\u00a0<em>The Orthodox Anti-Globalist Resource Centre<\/em>, now banned in both Ukraine and Russia.<\/p>\n<p>There is little and conflicting information available to the public about Vladimir Putin\u2019s early years. Suppressed in both Russia and the West, these excerpts from Eduard Hodos\u2019 book discuss Putin\u2019s ascent to the Russian presidency in 2000, as well as his complex and troublesome ties to Chabad Lubavitch Hasidic Judaism, its Russian Chief Rabbi Berl Lazar, and its Yeltsin-era oligarchs.<\/p>\n<p>Although some of it is conjectural, there is enough reliable factual information to show that these connections have played a significant role in Putin\u2019s decision-making, perhaps even the decisive one. It is a convoluted and intricate tale that is delivered with plenty of wit and sarcasm, and the portrayal differs greatly from the official narratives of the Russian president\u2019s career in both the West and Russia.<\/p>\n<p>It was written long before what seems to be a final break between Putin\u2019s Russia and the West in March 2016 over the February 2014 coup in Ukraine and the events that followed in Syria, which have both solidified Putin\u2019s domestic popularity and seem to contradict its thesis. However, it deserves careful examination because it was written by a very intelligent and perceptive Jewish observer of both Russian and Ukrainian history.<\/p>\n<p>Additionally, Vladimir Putin signed Russia\u2019s very own Holocaust denial statute into effect on May 5, 2014, which is a shocking validation of the authors\u2019 sketch of the strength of the Chabad Lubavitch Jewish Oligarchy in Russia.<\/p>\n<p>Although Hodos, a 2014 Jewish convert to Orthodox Christianity, is known to still dwell in Kharkov, Ukraine (as of June 2014), it is now challenging to locate online English translations of any of his writings. What follows is the chapter from Hodos\u2019s book:<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Institution of the Presidency<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Today [in 2002 \u2013 ed] it has become obvious that the fates of the Ukrainian and Russian peoples have wound up in the hands of\u00a0<em>\u201cfaceless creatures\u201d<\/em>, obedient\u00a0<em>\u201cslaves\u201d<\/em>\u00a0of their Khazar masters, who can be brought to power and dismissed at their whim. In this regard only Belarus has been spared, though it seemed until recently that Russia, might end up in the ranks of the lucky ones. By now, however, it\u2019s absolutely clear that she, too, has shared in the Ukraine\u2019s\u00a0<em>\u201cpresidential\u201d<\/em>\u00a0fate.<\/p>\n<p>Inasmuch as I\u2019ve dedicated many pages in my books to describing the personal contribution of the Ukrainian President [<em>Leonid Kuchma<\/em>\u00a0\u2013 Ed] to the business of construction of the\u00a0<em>Third Khazaria<\/em>, I\u2019ll limit myself this time to discussing the activities of another\u00a0<em>\u201cgood goy\u201d<\/em>, Vladimir Putin.<\/p>\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-image size-full\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-29062\" src=\"http:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Screenshot-2025-08-03-at-7.26.50-AM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"486\" height=\"310\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Screenshot-2025-08-03-at-7.26.50-AM.png 486w, https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Screenshot-2025-08-03-at-7.26.50-AM-300x191.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 486px) 100vw, 486px\" \/>Vladimir Putin with outgoing president Boris Yeltsin during the 2000 Russian Presidential election campaign<\/h5>\n<p>I first heard about Vladimir Putin\u00a0during an official visit to Israel in 1997. By invitation of the Israeli Foreign Ministry, I, along with then Vice-Governor of Kharkov Oblast Leonid Stasevsky, visited Israel as part of the\u00a0<em>\u201cProgram for Economic Cooperation\u201d<\/em>\u00a0between our countries. A busy programme of events awaited us, most of which was dedicated to numerous meetings with representatives of Israel\u2019s political and economic elite. Among them was a planned meeting with the President of the New Entrepreneurs\u2019 Association of Israel, Radoshkovich. At that time former Leningrad emigrant Yitzak Radoshkovich had already become a heavyweight figure not only in his own country, but, according to rumors, in the corridors of the World Bank as well. Our meeting, during the course of which the matter of various investment projects in the Kharkov region were discussed, was extremely official in nature. The same can\u2019t be said about a second meeting with Radoshkovich, with whom we, upon returning to the Ukraine, found ourselves in the same airplane. For the entire length of the flight from Tel-Aviv to Kiev we chatted on various topics. And in the course of our chat he mentioned in passing that his second cousin Vladimir Putin had great prospects for advancement in the Russian political elite. By August of 1999 I saw with my own eyes the result of the dizzying career of the theretofore unknown Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin. Let\u2019s refresh our memories on the chronology:<\/p>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Aug 1999: Appointed Prime Minister of the Russian Federation;<\/li>\n<li>Jan 2000: Appointed Acting President of the Russian Federation;<\/li>\n<li>Mar 2000: Elected President of the Russian Federation.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-29063\" src=\"http:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Screenshot-2025-08-03-at-7.27.10-AM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"483\" height=\"385\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Screenshot-2025-08-03-at-7.27.10-AM.png 483w, https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Screenshot-2025-08-03-at-7.27.10-AM-300x239.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 483px) 100vw, 483px\" \/>Boris Berezovsky<\/h5>\n<p>To what, or rather to whom, was Russia indebted for her\u00a0<em>\u201csuccessor to the throne\u201d<\/em>\u00a0in the form of\u00a0Vladimir Putin? We all know to whom: to Boris Abramovich Berezovsky,\u00a0who built up this new pretender to Russia\u2019s\u00a0<em>\u201cpresidential throne\u201d<\/em>\u00a0in record time. The indomitable Boris Abramovich searched long and hard for a potential\u00a0<em>\u201csuccessor.\u201d<\/em>\u00a0He took his time \u2026 You see, the\u00a0<em>\u201csuccessor\u201d<\/em>\u00a0would be obligated to preserve Family traditions and guarantee\u00a0<em>\u201cTsar Boris\u201d<\/em>\u00a0complete immunity after his\u00a0<em>\u201cabdication.\u201d<\/em>\u00a0[<em>\u201cThe Family\u201d refers not just to Yeltsin and his extended family, but the network of criminal-oligarchic clans tied to \u201cRussia\u2019s First President\u201d. \u2013 Ed<\/em>] What\u2019s more, Yeltsin\u2019s\u00a0<em>\u201csuccessor\u201d<\/em>\u00a0would have to be a paragon of health and youth, in order to differ advantageously from his aged but very popular rival,\u00a0Yevgeny Primakov and also possess the required ethnic characteristics for the Russian\u00a0<em>\u201cthrone,\u201d<\/em>\u00a0while at the same time being\u00a0<em>\u201cone of his own\u201d<\/em>\u00a0for Berezovsky [<em>In other words, of mixed Russian-Jewish parentage. \u2013 Ed<\/em>]. However, much to BAB\u2019s [<em>BAB \u2013 Boris Abramovich Berezovsky. \u2013 Editor<\/em>] annoyance, presidential\u00a0<em>\u201celections\u201d<\/em>\u00a0also presuppose the participation of the the people. Therefore, it was necessary to popularize the new pretender to the throne in the shortest possible time, and force the people to believe in its love for Berezovsky\u2019s \u201cchosen one.\u201d The inventive Boris Abramovich solved this problem, too. With the Second Chechen War. By September 1999, when the second\u00a0<em>\u201cChechen campaign\u201d<\/em>\u00a0was just picking up momentum, Aslan Maskhadov [<em>the then leader of \u201cindependent Chechnya\u201d \u2013 Editor<\/em>] announced in an interview in the newspaper Moskovsky Komsomolets:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>\u2026This war was provoked by Berezovsky \u2026 The war was planned long ago \u2026 One needs to search for its causes above all in Moscow. That\u2019s where the dirty political games are taking place around the question of who will become Yeltsin\u2019s successor\u2026<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>After the successful completion of the presidential campaign according to Berezovsky\u2019s scenario, BAB\u2019s\u00a0<em>\u201csponsorship\u201d<\/em>\u00a0turned out to be too compromising for the new Russian President, behind whose back more and more dissatisfied murmurs on this score could be heard. When\u00a0<em>\u201cpragmatic politician\u201d<\/em>\u00a0Vladimir Putin declared war on Jewish oligarchs Berezovsky and Gusinsky, loud and prolonged applause erupted from the increasingly joyful called\u00a0<em>\u201chealthy pragmatism.\u201d<\/em>\u00a0The real reason for the President\u2019s\u00a0<em>\u201craid\u201d<\/em>\u00a0on the best representatives of Russia\u2019s Jewish oligarchical circles was the\u00a0<em>\u201cstrong-willed\u201d<\/em>\u00a0decision of Chabad, which was able in this way to get rid of the\u00a0<em>\u201coverly-active\u201d<\/em>\u00a0Gusinsky and Berezovsky. Loud and prolonged applause erupted from the increasingly joyful public. The Russian President acquired the reputation of an\u00a0<em>\u201cuncompromising but fair\u201d<\/em>\u00a0strongman.<\/p>\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-29065\" src=\"http:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Screenshot-2025-08-03-at-7.27.46-AM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"481\" height=\"392\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Screenshot-2025-08-03-at-7.27.46-AM.png 481w, https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Screenshot-2025-08-03-at-7.27.46-AM-300x244.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 481px) 100vw, 481px\" \/>Russian-Israeli TV magnate Vladimir Gusinsky with commentator Yevgeny Kiselyev in 1999<\/h5>\n<p><strong>No one guessed that behind Putin\u2019s\u00a0<em>\u201cstrong-willed\u201d<\/em>\u00a0decision stood someone else\u2019s invisible will, subjugating yet another\u00a0<em>\u201cfaceless creature\u201d<\/em>, whose only (and very dubious) virtue was his so-called\u00a0<em>\u201chealthy pragmatism\u201d<\/em>\u00a0What had these two done to anger Chabad? In Berezovsky\u2019s case we can find the answer in the Jewish Observer. I\u2019ll cite the answer of Bishop Kirill, Metropolitan of Smolensk and Kaliningrad, to the question he was asked concerning the\u00a0<em>\u201chero\u201d<\/em>\u00a0now under discussion:<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>Regarding Boris Abramovich I must say the following. When I was visiting with the representative of Israeli President Netanyahu, who was in Moscow at the time, I asked him about the conflict between Gusinsky and Berezovsky, which was shaking the foundations of public life:\u00a0<em>\u201cCouldn\u2019t Israel somehow get involved? After all, they\u2019re your people.\u201d<\/em>\u00a0To this Netanyahu\u2019s aide answered:\u00a0<em>\u201cExcuse me. Gusinsky is ours, but Berezovsky\u2019s yours.\u201d<\/em>\u00a0Apparently he was referring to Berezovsky\u2019s baptism in the Orthodox Church. (Jewish Observer, 6\/25, March 2002)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So by becoming a\u00a0<em>\u201cChristian,\u201d<\/em>\u00a0Boris Abramovich Berezovsky ceased being\u00a0<em>\u201cone of his own\u201d<\/em>\u00a0and acquired the official status of\u00a0<em>vykrest<\/em>\u00a0(convert from Judaism) as such\u00a0<em>\u201crefuseniks\u201d<\/em>\u00a0are called in Jewish circles. And this was the main mistake of the\u00a0<em>\u201cunsinkable\u201d<\/em>\u00a0BAB, who this time had outfoxed himself.<\/p>\n<p><em>[I think there\u2019s an even more obvious explanation. Gusinsky and Berezovsky, whose personal feud was being played out on the TV screens all over the nation on the channels which they controlled, NTV and ORT, had simply become an embarrassment for the Jewish power structure. The feud brought the reality of Jewish power out into the open, which is a big \u201cno-no\u201d, of course. I remember well ORT\u2019s expos\u00e9s of Gusinsky\u2019s dubious activities in the Russian Jewish Congress, and how surprised everyone was that Berezovsky, a Jew, would resort to such tactics to compromise his opponent. -Ed]<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Having placed his bets on Orthodoxy, as the dominant religion in Russia, where he counted, not without foundation, on receiving full\u00a0<em>\u201cmoral and material\u201d<\/em>\u00a0satisfaction, Boris Abramovich was at the same time unwilling to part with the Jewish\u00a0<em>\u201ccourse of development\u201d<\/em>\u00a0where his own all-Russian business was concerned. Therefore the newly-baked Christian Berezovsky, relying on his\u00a0<em>\u201cchosen\u201d<\/em>\u00a0ethnicity, decided to simultaneously\u00a0<em>\u201cmake a splash\u201d<\/em>\u00a0in Jewish religious circles.<\/p>\n<p>But he forgot to take one thing into account: the uncompromising Chabad, which had created the religious Federation of Jewish Communities of Russia (FEOR), whose establishment BAB had actively helped enable by donating imposing sums for its development, doesn\u2019t forgive\u00a0<em>\u201cheretics,\u201d<\/em>\u00a0mercilessly ridding itself of them, and filling the resulting vacancies with new figures from among its own\u00a0<em>\u201cproper\u201d<\/em>\u00a0Jews. Here it would be appropriate to mention the advice received by the hero of an old Odessa anecdote in the banya:\u00a0<em>\u201cIvan Abramich, either take that cross off your neck or put your shorts back on.\u201d<\/em>\u00a0So Boris Abramovich, when he put on his cross, should have just kept his shorts on \u2026<\/p>\n<p>The second Jewish oligarch who suffered, as all then thought, from the\u00a0<em>\u201cuncompromising but fair\u201d<\/em>\u00a0President Putin was Berezovsky\u2019s main rival in\u00a0<em>\u201cunsinkability,\u201d<\/em>\u00a0Vladimir Alexandrovich Gusinsky. What was Gusinsky guilty of in the eyes of Chabad? You see, he, unlike\u00a0<em>\u201cBereza,\u201d<\/em>\u00a0had remained\u00a0<em>\u201cone of his own.\u201d<\/em>\u00a0Well, one of his own, it\u2019s true, but an\u00a0<em>\u201cincorrect\u201d<\/em>\u00a0Jew nonetheless. In 1996, on the initiative of the former head rabbi of the USSR, Adolf Shayevich, Vladimir Gusinsky founded the Russian Jewish Congress (REK), a\u00a0<em>\u201csecular\u201d<\/em>\u00a0organization representing the interests of\u00a0<em>\u201cassimilated\u201d<\/em>\u00a0Jewry and oriented, if one can express oneself thusly, toward the idea of\u00a0<em>\u201cWestern Zionism.\u201d<\/em>\u00a0That powerful structure, with its broad ties to the West, was the main competitor of Chabad and its brainchild,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/wikispooks.com\/w\/index.php?title=FEOR&amp;action=edit&amp;redlink=1\">FEOR<\/a>, in the battle for influence on Russian Jewry, and most importantly, in its battle for the Kremlin. So both sides undertook decisive\u00a0<em>\u201cmilitary action.\u201d<\/em>\u00a0Still fresh in our memories are the\u00a0<em>\u201chead-on\u201d<\/em>\u00a0TV attacks, where\u00a0<em>\u201cGus\u201d<\/em>\u00a0(Gusinsky), the official head of REK, and\u00a0<em>\u201cBereza\u201d<\/em>\u00a0(Berezovsky), the underground\u00a0<em>\u201csponsor\u201d<\/em>\u00a0of FEOR (Chabad), locked horns. By placing at its disposal\u00a0<em>\u201cheavy artillery\u201d<\/em>\u00a0in the form of BAB, a\u00a0<em>\u201cFamily\u201d<\/em>\u00a0member, Chabad in effect secured the support of the\u00a0<em>\u201cFamily\u201d<\/em>\u00a0in deciding the\u00a0<em>\u201cJewish question\u201d<\/em>\u00a0in its favor. The following fact is extremely telling in this regard:<\/p>\n<p><strong>In November 2000 the founding convention of the Federation of Jewish Communities of Russia (FEOR) took place in Moscow. At this event, the Chabad rabbi Berl Lazar, who is now Head Rabbi of Russia and the CIS, was elected to lead the organization. Five hours after Lazar\u2019s election, the chairman of REK, Vladimir Gusinsky, was arrested and taken to Butyrskaya Prison \u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>By provoking Gusinsky and Berezovsky into mutual conflict, but remaining all the while in the shadows, Chabad\u00a0<em>\u201ckilled two birds with one stone,\u201d<\/em>\u00a0discrediting Russia\u2019s main\u00a0<em>\u201cincorrect\u201d<\/em>\u00a0Jews, whose protracted feud was beginning to seriously destabilize the whole country. The events of that time were very neatly summed up by Viktor Chernomyrdin, who with his usual bluntness announced:\u00a0<em>\u201cTwo Jews fight, and all of Russia trembles.\u201d<\/em>\u00a0True, this commentary relates only to the visible side of the conflict. A more accurate characteristic of what happened can be given by rephrasing the well-known\u00a0<em>\u201canti-semitic\u201d<\/em>\u00a0saying:\u00a0<em>\u201cWhen two Jews fight, a third one sits there quietly.\u201d<\/em>\u00a0Having\u00a0<em>\u201csat there quietly\u201d<\/em>\u00a0for the required length of time, Chabad began to call on Russia\u2019s head\u00a0<em>\u201cpragmatist\u201d<\/em>\u00a0to deliver long-suffering Russia from the Jewish troublemakers, from whom allegedly issued the\u00a0<em>\u201cmain threat\u201d<\/em>\u00a0not only to Russian Jewry, but to the peace and quiet of the country as a whole.<\/p>\n<p>Lending his ear to Chabad\u2019s wisdom,\u00a0Vladimir Putin began the process of\u00a0<em>\u201cdeliverance of long-suffering Russia\u201d<\/em>\u00a0from the annoying duo, and thankfully plenty of pretexts for this were at hand: accusations of corruption, tax evasion, unlawful business practices, and so on and so forth. Only the method used to punish the subjects found guilty of the above crimes was completely non-standard: instead of the obvious solution of arrest and imprisonment, both\u00a0<em>\u201cGus\u201d<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0<em>\u201cBereza\u201d<\/em>\u00a0were magnanimously allowed to leave Russia, along with their stolen wealth! Such\u00a0<em>\u201csuper-healthy pragmatism\u201d<\/em>\u00a0on the part of the Russian President speaks volumes \u2026 This isn\u2019t Stalin for you, who reaped only dividends from the expulsion of Trotsky and the Lubavitcher Rebbe, the ridding of Russia from its two\u00a0<em>\u201cmain\u201d<\/em>\u00a0Jews and the solid boost to the national treasury resulting from their ransom.<\/p>\n<p>Vladimir Putin\u00a0<em>\u201cdid his best\u201d<\/em>\u00a0for Russia even more: he not only rid her, long-suffering Rus, of the Jewish\u00a0<em>\u201cplague,\u201d<\/em>\u00a0but also (a) effectively put an end to the schism within Russian Jewry, by placing the latter in Chabad\u2019s reliable hands; (b) expelled two Jewish\u00a0<em>\u201ctroublemakers\u201d<\/em>\u00a0from the Kremlin\u00a0<em>\u201cPolitburo,\u201d<\/em>\u00a0replacing them with the super-quiet Chabad; and (c) contributed humanitarian aid to the West in the form of the Bereza-Gus billions, thus boosting Russia\u2019s image as a rich and generous country \u2026 And the main thing: by releasing two of the Jews who have bled Russia dry in the past decade, Putin cleared the Russian people of any accusations of anti-semitism and raised its prestige in the eyes of the whole\u00a0<em>\u201ccivilized\u201d<\/em>\u00a0world! Take that, Joseph Vissarionovich!<\/p>\n<p>From that time on, Putin has been the loyal friend of Chabad, and always follows its quiet, wise advice. As the Jewish press glowingly reports,\u00a0<strong>Putin invites the Chabad rabbis to the Kremlin a minimum of once a month<\/strong>, and queries them in detail about the mood of the Jewish community in Russia:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>On the 7th of February Russian President Vladimir Putin received the Head Rabbi of Russia (FEOR) Berl Lazar in the Kremlin \u2026 As Berl Lazar reported, the Russian President was extremely interested in questions concerning the life of Russia\u2019s Jewish community \u2026 In Berl Lazar\u2019s opinion, the president was interested to find out that at present Jews feel much freer in Russia, that they can make the decision of whether to stay or whether to leave freely, inasmuch as they feel support from the government \u2026 But the main thing, in Rabbi Lazar\u2019s opinion, is that\u00a0<em>\u201cthe President has a healthy understanding of Russia\u2019s future and the role of religion in society.\u201d<\/em>\u00a0(International Jewish News, No. 10, February 2002)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>and<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>On the 19th of March the President of Russia Vladimir Putin met with representatives of the Federation of Jewish Communities of Russia in the Kremlin \u2026 Putin spoke of how important it is to set up a\u00a0<em>\u201cinsurmountable barrier\u201d<\/em>\u00a0to xenophobia and religious extremism, and noted the Jewish people\u2019s contribution to Russian affairs. The President spoke about the address of the Jewish community of Russia to the USA on the matter of repeal of the Jackson-Vanik amendment, since which the\u00a0<em>\u201cprocess is developing positively\u201d<\/em>\u00a0\u2026 President of the Federation of Jewish Communities of the CIS and Chairman of the FEOR oversight committee Lev Leviev was also present at the Kremlin meeting, along with rabbis from a number of Russian cities. (International Jewish News, No. 11, March 2002)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-29067\" src=\"http:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Screenshot-2025-08-03-at-7.28.34-AM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"455\" height=\"674\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Screenshot-2025-08-03-at-7.28.34-AM.png 455w, https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Screenshot-2025-08-03-at-7.28.34-AM-203x300.png 203w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 455px) 100vw, 455px\" \/>Berl Lazar, Chief Rabbi of Russia and a Chabad-Lubavitcher<\/h5>\n<p>With regard to the last quote, I must add that all of those\u00a0<em>\u201crabbis from a number of Russian cities,\u201d<\/em>\u00a0to the very last one, are Chabad\u2019s people, and the group of respected guests of the Kremlin was headed by the\u00a0<em>\u201cwise mentor\u201d<\/em>\u00a0with whom we\u2019re already acquainted, the\u00a0<em>\u201csuper-quiet\u201d<\/em>\u00a0Berl Lazar. Since I know personally the\u00a0<em>\u201cHead Rabbi of Russia and CIS Countries,\u201d<\/em>\u00a0one of the most highly-active carriers of\u00a0<em>\u201cZionist wisdom\u201d<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0<em>\u201chead foremen\u201d<\/em>\u00a0in the construction of the Third Khazaria, I can\u2019t fail to give Berl Lazar his due for his diplomatic and sleight-of-hand abilities and for going practically unnoticed as he jerks the strings of the\u00a0<em>\u201cgoy marionettes,\u201d<\/em>\u00a0setting them into their\u00a0<em>\u201cunnatural motion.\u201d<\/em>\u00a0What\u2019s more, this Lubavitcher werewolf is a master of the art of\u00a0<em>\u201cofficial language\u201d<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0<em>\u201cnimbly-constructed phraseology.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>So that you too can fully appreciate the supreme mastery of the\u00a0<em>\u201chead\u201d<\/em>\u00a0Chabad polyglot, I\u2019ll relate to you what Rabbi Lazar said in a televised chat on Gusinsky\u2019s former channel, NTV, with Savik Schuster, host of the program\u00a0<em>\u201cHero of the Day.\u201d<\/em>\u00a0[Schuster, a Jew and long-time former employee of US State Department-funded \u201cRadio Liberty\u201d, is now NTV\u2019s main political talk-show host. -Ed]<\/p>\n<p>Berl Lazar began his monologue with his traditional reverence in the direction of President Putin, who, in his words, possesses such remarkable qualities as\u00a0<em>\u201cconfident pragmatism\u201d<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0<em>\u201ca healthy understanding of the question of Russia\u2019s future,\u201d<\/em>\u00a0which, in turn, is the guarantee of the well-being and prosperity of the country\u2019s Jewish community. Then the discussion turned to matters of trade, business, petitioning the American administration for the repeal of the\u00a0<em>\u201cJackson-Vanik amendment,\u201d<\/em>\u00a0and even to the rabbi\u2019s intention of influencing the US oil lobby with the intention of re-orienting it towards Russia \u2026<\/p>\n<p>Listening patiently to these business projects which, as it turns out, are all part of the Jewish community\u2019s sphere of\u00a0<em>\u201cvital interests,\u201d<\/em>\u00a0I waited and waited for the religious leader of Russian Jewry, the Head Rabbi of Russia and the CIS, to say at least one word about God or the soul. As it turned out I waited in vain \u2026<\/p>\n<p><strong>Can you imagine a representative of the Orthodox Christian clergy sitting in front of the TV camera, giving a\u00a0<em>\u201csermon\u201d<\/em>\u00a0about business strategy and the advantages resulting from one or another deal?\u2026\u00a0<\/strong>So we have a strange situation: While the Orthodox Church calls its flock to humility, kindness, cleansing of the soul and the service of God, Chabad\u00a0<em>\u201cchosen people\u201d<\/em>\u00a0in black hats boast pragmatically of their business deals concluded on the bones of humble Orthodox Christians. How right Emmanuel Kant was, when he said:\u00a0<em><strong>\u201cIn the absence of morals God is a monster\u201d<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0\u2026<\/p>\n<p>A word or two about the aforementioned\u00a0<em>\u201cbusiness projects\u201d<\/em>: I hope you remember what happened to the rabbi\u2019s promises to help repeal the\u00a0<em>\u201cJackson-Vanik amendment\u201d<\/em>\u00a0introduced in 1973 to\u00a0<em>\u201cpunish\u201d<\/em>\u00a0the Soviet Union for limiting Jewish emigration, in accordance with which the USA set up a range of trade barriers against the USSR? That\u2019s right, nothing happened. And Bush\u2019s\u00a0<em>\u201clong-awaited\u201d<\/em>\u00a0visit, to which the amendment\u2019s repeal was supposed to be timed, ended with the introduction of yet another\u00a0<em>\u201camendment\u201d<\/em>\u00a0which created additional limitations, this time on\u00a0<em>\u201cstrategic offensive arms.\u201d<\/em>\u00a0Without doubt, one has to possess especially\u00a0<em>\u201cpragmatic\u201d<\/em>\u00a0views to see any advantage for Russia in all of this \u2026<\/p>\n<p>Having paid an incommensurately high price of a new\u00a0<em>\u201camendment\u201d<\/em>\u00a0for the repeal of the old one, President Putin was allowed the\u00a0<em>\u201chonor\u201d<\/em>\u00a0of calling himself Bush\u2019s\u00a0<em>\u201cfriend,\u201d<\/em>\u00a0and even received from his new\u00a0<em>\u201ccomrade-in-farewell-to-arms\u201d<\/em>\u00a0the playful sobriquet\u00a0<em>\u201cPootie-Poot\u201d<\/em>\u00a0as a token of special consideration. Before this moment only Gorbachev had succeeded in rising so high in the eyes of the\u00a0<em>\u201cworld community\u201d<\/em>\u00a0by being worthy of the chummy nickname\u00a0<em>\u201cGorby.\u201d<\/em>\u00a0Apparently it was no tragedy that the problem of the\u00a0<em>\u201cemigration\u201d<\/em>\u00a0of American chicken legs had replaced that of the emigration of Russian Jews. The main thing is that friendship triumphed!<\/p>\n<p>And while Pootie-Poot, with his characteristic pragmatism, is thinking up new ways to sell off Russia\u2019s\u00a0<em>\u201cbest interests,\u201d<\/em>\u00a0the Jacksons and Vaniks of the world will be busy thinking up new reasons to keep Russia\u00a0<em>\u201con the hook\u201d<\/em>\u00a0with more and more of their\u00a0<em>\u201camendments.\u201d<\/em>\u00a0There can be no doubt the the latest of Chabad\u2019s\u00a0<em>\u201cinitiatives,\u201d<\/em>\u00a0including the current\u00a0<em>\u201coil initiative,\u201d<\/em>\u00a0will end no less\u00a0<em>\u201cadvantageously\u201d<\/em>\u00a0\u2026 And one more detail, with which that very same NTV acquainted its viewers.\u00a0<strong>In a March<\/strong>\u00a0[2002 \u2013 Ed]\u00a0<strong>meeting in the Kremlin,\u00a0Vladimir Putin congratulated those present on a significant date: the 100th anniversary of the birth of the Seventh Lubavitcher Rebbe Menachem Mendel Schneerson, King-Messiah for the ages!<\/strong>\u00a0I think no comment is necessary here.<\/p>\n<p>The next publication I wish to cite, however, will require some commentary to help you to fully comprehend just what sort of guests the Russian Head of State with his strenuously-cultivated\u00a0<em>\u201cin-control\u201d<\/em>\u00a0image is welcoming to the Kremlin. I\u2019m referring to an article published in the Odessa magazine\u00a0<em>Passazh<\/em>, and dedicated to the President of the Federation of Jewish Communities of the CIS States and chairman of the FEOR oversight committee, Lev Leviev. This true\u00a0<em>\u201chatchling\u201d<\/em>\u00a0from the Chabad nest, who openly demonstrates his ultra-Orthodox fanaticism, is one of the new\u00a0<em>\u201cheroes of the day\u201d<\/em>\u00a0who\u2019ve arrived to replace yesterday\u2019s\u00a0<em>\u201cincorrect\u201d<\/em>\u00a0oligarchs, and obligatorily figures in all of Chabad\u2019s\u00a0<em>\u201cget-togethers\u201d<\/em>\u00a0with the presidents of Russia and the Ukraine. By the way, you\u2019ve already seen him in the photographs with the captions\u00a0<em>\u201cgood goys,\u201d<\/em>\u00a0where he\u2019s standing on the right hand of both\u00a0<em>\u201ccorrect\u201d<\/em>\u00a0presidents, apparently to signify the\u00a0<em>\u201cspecial services\u201d<\/em>\u00a0rendered by this Chabad oligarch to the Orthodox Christian states \u2026<\/p>\n<p>One of Lev Leviev\u2019s\u00a0<em>\u201cspecial services\u201d<\/em>\u00a0consists of his\u00a0<em>\u201csuper-quiet\u201d<\/em>\u00a0entry into Russia\u2019s diamond mining industry, where Chabad is now pumping out diamonds from the\u00a0<em>\u201crich and generous\u201d<\/em>\u00a0land. In light of this fact, the title of a Passazh article entitled\u00a0<em>\u201cSecrets of Diamond Lev\u201d<\/em>\u00a0looks especially symbolic. I\u2019ll cite a few of its high points:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>We met when Leviev flew to Odessa from Kiev. In the Ukrainian capital the President of the Federation of Jewish Communities of the CIS States and a group of Ukrainian rabbis were received by President Kuchma \u2026 Leviev said much of interest and edification on this celebratory evening to those gathered in the synagogue on Ulitsa Osipova. He spoke of the respect with which he was received by the Ukrainian government, which expressed serious interest in Jews taking an ever more active role in the public and economic life of the country. We should note that this exhortation was addressed specifically to one person: the head of GKL (the\u00a0<em>\u201cLeviev Company Group\u201d<\/em>), president of the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Israel, Russia, and the CIS Countries. A man who enjoys great trust and authority not only in business circles, but among the leaders of world powers, including Russian President Vladimir Putin \u2026 (Passazh, February 2002)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-29069\" src=\"http:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Screenshot-2025-08-03-at-7.30.24-AM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"460\" height=\"620\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Screenshot-2025-08-03-at-7.30.24-AM.png 460w, https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Screenshot-2025-08-03-at-7.30.24-AM-223x300.png 223w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 460px) 100vw, 460px\" \/>Chabad Lubavitch Rebbe, Rabi Menachem Mendel Schneerson<\/h5>\n<p>As you can see,\u00a0Lev Leviev\u2019s regular visits to Kiev and Moscow have borne fruit, guaranteeing\u00a0<em>\u201cserious interest\u201d<\/em>\u00a0of both the Ukrainian and Russian leadership in Jews\u2019\u00a0<em>\u201cactive role in the public and economic life\u201d<\/em>\u00a0of these countries. What\u2019s more, the supra-national\u00a0<em>\u201cpresidential\u201d<\/em>\u00a0status of Leviev, who heads the Federation of Jewish Communities of the CIS States, allows him not only to speak with the presidents of giant Slavic states as equals, but guarantees that\u00a0<em>\u201cDiamond Lev\u201d<\/em>\u00a0enjoys their\u00a0<em>\u201cgreat trust and authority.\u201d<\/em>\u00a0And not only he, but the group of Chabad rabbis protecting the interests of their own\u00a0<em>\u201ccorrect\u201d<\/em>\u00a0oligarchs. The article continues:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>Here\u2019s the main thing: Lev is convinced that his life was enlightened by communion with his Teacher \u2013 the Lubavitcher Rebbe Menachem-Mendel Schneerson. And here\u2019s an example:<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cIn 1989\u2033, (recalls Leviev),\u00a0<\/em>\u201cmy business wasn\u2019t going as well as I could have hoped for \u2026 I must say that at that time was considering starting up business in the USSR, though I understood just how risky that could be. As I always did in such situations, I went to the Rebbe to ask his advice \u2026 From him I heard the following: \u2018Don\u2019t forget your family traditions; don\u2019t forget who your grandfather was; remember the Torah, which teaches us to concern ourselves with others. You must help other Jews living in the Soviet Union.\u2019 And he named all 15 republics, adding: \u2018God willing, you\u2019ll have a business, too.\u2019 Armed with this advice from the Teacher, I arrived in Moscow 11 years ago and opened up two programs, one related to business and the other to helping the community. Today there are already 345 such organizations in the CIS, with synagogues, institutes of learning, cafeterias, libraries, and large centers \u2026 One of the most active is Chabad Shomrei Shabos, which is run by my friend, the Head Rabbi of Odessa and the Southern Ukraine, Avroom Wolf. I consider him the most successful and reliable businessman \u2026\u201d<em>\u00a0(Ibid.)<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Here we need to pay attention to two things. Firstly, who in the conditions of the still-communist USSR would think of opening up a private diamond business? And it\u2019s just this sort of\u00a0<em>\u201cbusiness-related program\u201d<\/em>\u00a0which we\u2019re talking about here, because by that time Lev Leviev had already established himself in diamonds in South Africa, Angola and India \u2026 Though after reading the above article one might get the impression that\u00a0<em>\u201cDiamond Lev,\u201d<\/em>\u00a0in seeking the Rebbe\u2019s advice before expanding into\u00a0<em>\u201cSoviet\u201d<\/em>\u00a0territory, was thinking about opening an\u00a0<em>atelier<\/em>\u00a0for the sewing of women\u2019s blouses or a small factory for the production of jar lids.<\/p>\n<p>We can only draw one conclusion from the fact that Leviev received his Teacher\u2019s blessing and decided to\u00a0<em>\u201ctake the risk\u201d<\/em>\u00a0after all:\u00a0<strong>that by 1989 no risk existed for Chabad\u00a0<em>\u201cbusinessmen\u201d<\/em>\u00a0in the Soviet Union.<\/strong>\u00a0Though within the USSR itself there were probably very few who could have guessed that \u2026 And the second point. We\u2019ve seen once again from this article that Chabad rabbis are able to combine,\u00a0<em>\u201cwith no qualms,\u201d<\/em>\u00a0active religious activity with the conduct of\u00a0<em>\u201csuccessful and reliable business projects.\u201d<\/em>\u00a0I wonder how relations have developed between these rabbi-businessmen and local fiscal organs? Maybe a special paragraph has been introduced into the Tax Code, entitled\u00a0<em>\u201cRabbinical business\u201d<\/em>? Or maybe the business deals of the Chabad rabbinate are handled by the Committee for Religious Matters?<\/p>\n<p>And once again an involuntary comparison with the\u00a0<em>\u201cgoy priesthood\u201d<\/em>, comes to mind: an Orthodox Christian priest who\u2019s simultaneously a\u00a0<em>\u201csuccessful businessman\u201d<\/em>\u00a0is about as easy to find as a\u00a0<em>\u201cbig-hearted\u201d<\/em>\u00a0Jew\u2026<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>Lev Leviev noted that although he spends large sums (even for him!) on charity, God not only returns the money, but multiplies it. The financial crisis of 1998 which shook Russia and other countries affected GKL too, of course, but his business soon recovered, receiving an income five times greater than what was lost \u2026 (Ibid.)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I\u2019d like to remind you that the financial crisis of 1998 happened during the premiership of the the\u00a0<em>\u201cyoung reformer\u201d<\/em>\u00a0Sergei Kirienko, the consequences of whose\u00a0<em>\u201chealthy pragmatism\u201d<\/em>\u00a0are still being felt by\u00a0<em>\u201cRussia and other countries\u201d<\/em>\u00a0to this day. It seems that the only one who came out the winner after\u00a0<em>\u201cBlack Tuesday\u201d<\/em>\u00a0was Lev Leviev. In any case, the other lucky ones have yet to come forward.<\/p>\n<p>In surprising fashion, the main\u00a0<em>\u201cguilty party\u201d<\/em>\u00a0of Chabad oligarch Lev Leviev\u2019s\u00a0<em>\u201ctriumph\u201d<\/em>\u00a0[<em>the ruble default of 1998 \u2013 Ed<\/em>] avoided what by all accounts should have been the end of his political career, by receiving the post of presidential representative in one of Russia\u2019s seven federal districts as a reward for his inglorious premiership. Maybe ex-premier Kirienko\u2019s phenomenal\u00a0<em>\u201cunsinkability\u201d<\/em>\u00a0can be explained by his Jewish ancestry, officially recognized by Israel in the form of an offer of dual Russian-Israeli citizenship? True, Sergei Vladimirovich demonstratively refused it, but his gesture, as I will now convince you, was a pure formality. In part, the newspaper Pravda of Moscow (No. 98, 1998) sets forth materials published in the Israeli newspaper Vesti about how the branch of the Israeli Foreign Ministry in the city of Holon (a suburb of Tel Aviv) confirmed the fact of the issuance of such ID documents to Sergei Kirienko when he was still a banker. However, after Boris Berezovsky\u2019s refusal of Israeli citizenship, Kirienko followed the oligarch\u2019s example, as did many other leading Russian businessmen and highly-placed political figures. Among the more well-known\u00a0<em>\u201crefuseniks,\u201d<\/em>\u00a0the newspaper mentions Chubais, Nemtsov, Urinson, Yasin, and Livshits. By the way, Vesti stresses that the procedure for receiving Israeli citizenship, like the procedure for refusing it, is extremely simple. It\u2019s enough to fill out a standardized form in any Israeli embassy or consulate indicating the reason for refusal. According to Israeli law, citizenship can be restored just as easily. At a board meeting of the Jewish Sokhnut agency, the possibility of the secondary issuance of Israel citizenship to former Russian politicians in cases of emergency was discussed \u2026<\/p>\n<p>It seems to me that Russia\u2019s\u00a0<em>\u201cyoung reformers,\u201d<\/em>\u00a0who so actively support their pragmatic President, can sleep soundly, for their safety is guaranteed by the\u00a0<em>\u201cZionist elders\u201d<\/em>\u00a0themselves:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p><strong>The security of our people<\/strong>. They won\u2019t be able to touch our people, for the moment of attack will be known to us in advance, and we will take measures to protect them. [See protocol number 3]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The only thing remaining to add is that Lev Leviev\u00a0is only one member of the\u00a0<em>\u201cdiamond reserves\u201d<\/em>\u00a0of Chabad, which has tightly encircled the Russian and Ukrainian\u00a0<em>\u201cthrones\u201d<\/em>\u00a0with its oligarchs. And today Mamut and Abramovich speak in the name of Russia\u2019s\u00a0<em>\u201cbusiness community\u201d<\/em>\u00a0and Feldman and Rabinovich in the name of the Ukraine\u2019s, with the support of Chabad rabbi-businessmen and the post-mortem blessing of the practical Lubavitcher Moshiach:\u00a0<em>\u201cGod willing, you\u2019ll have a business, too\u201d<\/em>\u2026<\/p>\n<p>[<em>Mamut is a Kremlin insider connected with Alexander Voloshin (also a Jew), head of Putin\u2019s administration. Voloshin held this post under Yelstin too, by the way. Abramovich is a Berezovsky protege, oil baron, Russia\u2019s second-richest billionaire (net worth $8 billion) and governor of the mineral-rich Chukotskaya Oblast. Rabinovich, the Ukraine\u2019s most powerful media-magnate, recently donated a massive solid-gold chandelier for the future Third Temple in Jerusalem. While we\u2019re on the subject of oligarchs: today, June 26, 2003, banking and oil magnate Mikhail Friedman signed a multi-billion dollar partnership deal with British Petroleum in London. Friedman and other members of the \u201cbusiness community\u201d accompanied Putin on his visit to the British capital. \u2013 Ed<\/em>]<\/p>\n<p>But let\u2019s return to our\u00a0<em>\u201chobby horse\u201d<\/em>, that is, to the research of the personalities of the\u00a0<em>\u201cfaceless creatures\u201d<\/em>, into whose hands the fates of our two great nations have been delivered.<\/p>\n<p>I have to say that the Ukrainian\u00a0<em>\u201ccreature\u201d<\/em>\u00a0has already proven his\u00a0<em>\u201cfacelessness\u201d<\/em>\u00a0to such a degree that no one now nurtures any illusions as to the course along which President Kuchma is leading our country into\u00a0<em>\u201ccivilized Europe\u201d<\/em>. The people reacted to its own awakening with yet another masterpiece of oral folk art, in which it created a new image of the Ukrainian President:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>Our president\u2019s a smooth talker,<br \/>\nThough he must be a tapeworm;<br \/>\nFor he\u2019s leading us into Europe,<br \/>\nThrough the back door.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>As they say, you can\u2019t throw out the words from a song\u2026<\/p>\n<p>As far as Russia is concerned, the situation with her\u00a0<em>\u201cawakening\u201d<\/em>\u00a0is less optimistic. In contrast to his Ukrainian colleague, the Russian President knows how to\u00a0<em>\u201cmaintain his image\u201d<\/em>, and as a professional intelligence officer he\u2019s hard to crack. However\u2026 Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin has tripped over his own pragmatism.<\/p>\n<p>Let\u2019s remember the brilliant beginning of the\u00a0<em>\u201cbuildup\u201d<\/em>\u00a0of the Presidential image \u2014 the\u00a0<em>\u201cstruggle\u201d<\/em>\u00a0against the Jewish oligarchs, the calls to\u00a0<em>\u201cwaste\u201d<\/em>\u00a0Chechen warlords\u00a0<em>\u201cin the latrine\u201d<\/em>, the building of the\u00a0<em>\u201cstrict power vertical\u201d<\/em>, flights on fighter planes\u2026 The Russian people, tired of the drunken antics and open indifference of\u00a0<em>\u201cTsar Boris\u201d<\/em>, looked to the\u00a0<em>\u201csuccessor\u201d<\/em>\u00a0with hope, saying:\u00a0<em>\u201cNow at last we have a real leader! Thank God!\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>But gradually the people\u2019s enthusiasm is giving way to perplexity. Before their eyes Putin\u2019s\u00a0<em>\u201cgreat leader\u201d<\/em>\u00a0qualities have begun to melt away, revealing the\u00a0<em>\u201cfaceless creature\u201d<\/em>\u00a0of healthy pragmatism. In short, the\u00a0<em>\u201csuccessor\u201d<\/em>\u00a0hasn\u2019t lived up to his tsar\u2019s calling\u2026<\/p>\n<p>That can\u2019t be said of his predecessor, Yeltsin, whom the people themselves christened\u00a0<em>\u201cTsar Boris\u201d<\/em>. Say what you will, but Yeltsin, for all his spontaneity, wildness, and pure stupidity at times, possessed far greater\u00a0<em>\u201cleadership\u201d<\/em>\u00a0qualities than the dry and absolutely faceless\u00a0<em>\u201cpragmatic\u201d<\/em>, Putin. In the end the people always feel just who\u2019s climbed onto the throne: the King of Beans, maybe, but King nonetheless. Even in a jester\u2019s cap\u2026<\/p>\n<p>As far as faceless pragmatists go, folk wisdom has honored them with appropriate nicknames. Recently I was told that a new\u00a0<em>\u201ctitle\u201d<\/em>\u00a0bestowed on the\u00a0<em>\u201csuccessor\u201d<\/em>\u00a0is gaining popularity in Moscow:\u00a0<em>\u201cVova Pukin\u201d<\/em>\u00a0[<em>\u201cVova\u201d, a nickname for \u201cVladimir\u201d, is used only for small children. \u201cPukin\u201d comes from the verb \u201cpukat&#8217;\u201d \u2014 to fart. -Ed<\/em>] In this manner, we see the \u201cdevolution\u201d of the President of the Russian Federation: Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin \u2013 Vova Pukin \u2013 Pootie-Poot. Perhaps the next stage of the presidential career will be named\u00a0<em>\u201cOotie-Pootie\u201d<\/em>\u2026<\/p>\n<p>But for the time being the\u00a0<em>\u201csuccessor\u2019s\u201d<\/em>\u00a0career path is at the\u00a0<em>\u201cPootie-Poot\u201d<\/em>\u00a0stage, which witnesses the unconditional acceptance by the\u00a0<em>\u201cworld community\u201d<\/em>\u00a0of his special services in the area of\u00a0<em>\u201chealthy pragmatism\u201d<\/em>, and also the exact correspondence of Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin to the title of\u00a0<em>\u201cgood goy\u201d<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>But while Russian people are only just beginning to ripen to their final\u00a0<em>\u201cawakening\u201d<\/em>, they\u2019ve been overtaken by the Serbs, that long-suffering Slavic nation which has become the Redeeming Sacrifice for today\u2019s\u00a0<em>\u201cpragmatism\u201d<\/em>\u00a0of Mother Russia, whom they love so fiercely in spite of it all:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>Goodbye, Russia. We Serbs can no longer stand with you in any sort of alliance, until you\u2019re once again able to rule yourselves, until you stop trading your allies, selling them out for pennies and empty slogans. We can\u2019t be with you until you free yourself of your anti-Slavic extremists\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Goodbye, Russia. We love you more than ourselves. For us you\u2019re a myth, like Kosovo. But as it turns out, this myth is a myth of a Russia which doesn\u2019t exist.<\/p>\n<p><em>(Bozidar Trifunov Mitrovic. \u201cThe Genocide of the Romans and Slavs\u201d.)<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Summing up this analysis of the role of the institution of the presidency in the business of the construction of the Third Khazaria, I\u2019d like to end with a re-phrasing of Pushkin\u2019s well-known lines:<\/p>\n<p>Oh, how many wondrous revelations<br \/>\nSchneerson\u2019s Ghost doth prepare,<br \/>\nKuchma, the son of grievous error,<br \/>\nAnd \u201cPootie-Poot\u201d, the rabbis\u2019 friend.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chabad Jews in Russia control Vladimir Putin, who is surrounded by the Jewish Oligarchs<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29060","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29060","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29060"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29060\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29060"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}