Tag: Vladimir Putin

Last Friday, the spokeswoman for the Russian Foreign Ministry said she was baffled by Israel's reaction to an attack by Russian Ambassador Anatoly Viktorov.

Earlier this month, Hadassah Medical Center ordered 1.5 million doses of the Russian coronavirus vaccine.

Most of the 46 attacks documented by Human Rights Watch appeared to involve the use of explosive weapons with wide-area effects in populated areas.

The turnout at the nationwide vote hit 57.43% by 12:00 midnight Moscow Time, suggesting about 42% of Russians didn't bother to show up.

Could be time to make that MAGA hat purchase in preparation for the January inauguration.

Matthews admired the late President Shimon Peres, but despised PM Benjamin Netanyahu and lumped him together with “bad guys” like Vladimir Putin and Recep Tayyip Erdogan.

Erdogan's skill at using millions of human beings to advance his policies remains as effective as before, but this time around it will be difficult for him to repeat his parlor trick.

At the forum, President Putin tried to diminish the damage done by the Soviet Union's prewar pact with the Nazis to divide Poland, and shifted the blame for the outbreak of World War II to Poland.

It wasn't the Kremlin asking Netanyahu for the scoop about Trump's deal of the century, it was Netanyahu initiating the briefing.

Innocent victim? Careless traveler? Prisoner of Zion with weed?

The Russian leader’s pardon on Wednesday cleared the way for Issachar to leave the country.

Russia's President Vladimir Putin reassured Naama’s mother during his recent visit to Jerusalem that everything “will be alright.”

Piece of advice: next time you hear the Russians want something from your country – stay home.

Welcome to the era of Mafioso diplomacy.

U.S. Vice President Mike Pence called on the world to unite against growing anti-Semitism, and notably called out Iran for its Holocaust denial and threats to wipe out Israel.

"Her mother was very moving and supports her daughter. I said to her and I will say it again – everything will be alright."

Abbas dismissed as a "myth" and "fantastic lie" that six million Jews had died in the Holocaust.

Unlike Naama Issachar, Putin won't be arrested for trying to take the coin out of Israel.

You'll note there's no note of astonishment in the TASS report over the disproportionately harsh sentence.

Naama Issachar did not walk down the steps from Putin's plane. Good bye, fantasy, we'll have some reality here for a change.

Israel was going to recognize the ownership over the Russian compound in the Old City sooner or later anyway, the Naama Issachar arrest was just an incentive.

Putin’s press secretary told journalists on Monday, "We never announce such matters," and suggested it would be best to "wait and see."

“One shot will disrupt the ceremony and one dead body will cancel the ceremony.”

The assumption on the Israeli side is that Netanyahu would be obliged to support the narrative that the Russians are currently advancing against the Poles on the actions taken by the two countries in World War II.

"The conversation . . . strengthened the Prime Minister's optimism that the issue of the release of Naama Issachar is advancing towards a solution.”

“We do not abandon anyone to his fate,” Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu writes to Naama Issachar, 27, who was arrested in Moscow on drug charges in April.

Last November, Israel extradited to the US an alleged Russian cybercriminal named Alexei Burkov, and themove sealed Naama's fate.

In retrospect, Madagascar would have probably been safer for the Jews than Poland, but that's a different debate altogether.

"We are distressed and angry. . . We ask the prime minister – do not allow President Vladimir Putin to land in Israel without Naama returning home.”

“We are building a global coalition of leaders who can send a strong message that will resonate around the world."