Leonid lebedev biography of abraham
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Sharnopolsky Abraham
Born in 1931 in the shtetl of Ilyintsy, Vinnitsa region, Mr. Sharnopolsky immigrated to Israel in 1995. He has served as director of the Jerusalem Home of Technologies and deputy chairman of the organization “For A Worthy Future.”
THAT WHICH SHALL NOT BE ERASED FROM MY MEMORY
(Excerpt from a published memoir)
It was that very evening that the preparations for our departure began. Father went into our storage room and brought out the bags we had used when we traveled to Kiev, and Mother sat down at the sewing machine to sew several duffel bags from some heavy fabric. All the next day our parents packed these bags. As we kids were always trying to secretly slip some of our toys and books into the bags, we were strictly forbidden to come nära them, especially since our parents were already käbbel over what to pack. Father furiously threw things aside, repeating, like a broken record, that in two or three weeks, a month at the latest, the war
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The Jewish World’s Ambivalence About Russian Oligarchs
LAST THURSDAY, Jewish Currents published my feature on Roman Abramovich, covering his stratospheric rise to the global billionaire class, his extensive financial support for the Jewish institutional world, and how Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is forcing a moral reckoning over that philanthropy. In the week since, a lot has happened to Abramovich and his fellow Russian oligarchs. For this week’s newsletter (subscribe here), I wanted to offer a follow-up outlining how both Western governments and specifically Jewish institutions are responding to the oligarchs as the war in Ukraine rages on.
Earlier today, the British government officially sanctioned Abramovich along with six other Russian oligarchs (Oleg Deripaska, Igor Sechin, Andrey Kostin, Alexei Miller, Nikolai Tokarev, and Dmitri Lebedev) who join a growing list of individuals facing harsh penalties since Russia launched its invasion two weeks ago. None of them will
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Persons
Foreign Relations of the United States, 1969–1976, Volume XVI, Soviet Union, August 1974–December 1976
- Abrasimov, Pyotr A., Soviet Ambassador to the German Democratic Republic
- Akalovsky, Alexander, interpreter, Department of State
- Aldrich, George H., Deputy Legal Adviser, Department of State
- Aleksandrov-Agentov, Andrei A., Member of the Secretariat of the General Secretary, Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (Brezhnev’s foreign policy adviser)
- Allon, Yigal, Israeli Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs
- Anderson, Robert, Special Assistant to the Secretary of State for Press Relations (Department of State spokesman)
- Arbatov, Georgi A., Director of the Institute of the United States of America, Russian Academy of Sciences; also Senior Foreign Policy Advisor of the Foreign Department of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union
- Armitage, John A., Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for European Af