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reformist party headed by former
government ministers with Jewish
roots that won nearly nine percent
of the vote.
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he was the single one there to sup-
port Russia's position over fighting
terrorism in Chechnya," said
Kogan, who is also one of the
leaders of KEROOR, the
Congress of Jewish Religious
Communities and Organizations
of Russia.
Putin said "he was going to
supervise personally the investiga-
tion of the latest synagogue bomb-
ings and some other antisemitic
acts," Kogan said, referring to the
recent wave of attacks against Jews.
Some Russian Jews worry that
Putin's rise was created by a Jewish
media tycoon, Boris Berezovsky,
whose officially state-controlled
national TV channel ORT openly
manipulated Russian public opin-
ion during the campaign, con-
stantly praising Putin and pound-
ing his presidential rivals, former
Prime Minister Yevgeny Primakov
and Moscow Mayor Yuri Luzhkov.
Others fear that the support for
the war could foster a xenophobic
nationalism that has, in the past,
often been linked to antisemitism.
In Washington, Micah Naftalin,
national director of the Union of
Councils for Soviet Jews, agreed.
Putin has risen to power on the
back of a racist war, which appeals
to the worst xenophobic instincts
of the Russians," he said.
Other leaders of American
organizations working with Jews
living in the former Soviet Union
are taking a wait-and-see attitude
about the change in leadership.
In recent weeks, Putin has talked
about fighting the rise in anti-
semitism, and it will be important to
see what type of leadership he exerts
on this issue," said Mark Levin, exec-
utive director of the National
Conference on Soviet Jewry.
Abraham Foxman, national
director of the Anti-Defamation
League, said politicalnsta
uncertainty are
"I voted for the SPS, and most of
our people here did the same," said
Svetlana Danilova, a Jewish communi-
ty leader in the city of Nalchik in the
Caucasian Mountains.
She said that while many of the
elderly Jews in her community voted
for the communists, she believes that
today we need more active, energetic
politicians."
That sentiment was apparently
echoed by thousands of Russian citi-
zens in Israel, who registered their
votes at the Russian Embassy in Israel.
Another reformist party, Yabloko,
also drew some Jewish support, espe-
cially because of its opposition to the
war in Chechnya.
Leonid Raytsin, a history teacher at
a Moscow Jewish school, said that
although he wanted to vote for SPS,
he opposed the party's support for
then Prime Minister Vladimir Putin
and the war in Chechnya. Putin
became president Dec. 31, when Boris
Yeltsin resigned.
"I voted for Yabloko, because they
want to stop the war in Chechnya,"
Raytsin said of the party that gained
some six percent of the vofes.
- Some Jewish votes, especially in
Moscow, supported the Fatherland-All
Russia bloc, headed by two charismat-
ic leaders: former Prime Minister
Yevgeny Primakov and Moscow
Mayor Yuri Luzhkov, who is seen as a
strong supporter of Jewish causes and
was re-elected to his post.
Unexpectedly, a considerable num-
ber of Jews, mostly elderly people in
provincial cities, voted for the com-
munists, according to reports from
around the country.
Indeed the Communist Party,
which prevailed in the last Duma, got
the largest number of votes in the
election. The party garnered 24.2 per-
cent of the vote and is expected to
have about 111 seats in the 450-seat
house, down from 147 seats in the last
Duma, according to preliminary
results.
Meanwhile, the bloc headed by
ultranationalist Vladimir Zhirinovsky
cleared the 5 percent threshold with
6.1 percent and will have 17 seats in
the new Duma, a marked decrease
from the 51 seats in the old parliament.
But other antisemites were banned
from running. Indeed, Gen. Albert
Makashov, known for his public antise-
mitic comments, was banned at the last
minute on a campaign violation. ❑
a cent
an d has courageously
.•co n tinued • tO. speak out against anti4 .
•• semitisM,7•FoXman. said, adding his
•of
.
hOpe that because.Putin was -
Yeltsin's chosen successor, "he will •
follow in the best of the Yeltsin tra-
dition." El •
jTA staff writer Julie Wiener in
• New York contributed to this report,
•