Russian Turmoil

Russian Jews mull
the arrest of one leader
and the supplanting
of another.

LEV GORODETSKY
Jewish Telegraphic Agency

Moscow
scalating tensions in the Russian
Jewish community exploded this
week as government authorities arrest-
ed Vladimir Goussinsky, the media
tycoon who serves as the president of
the Russian Jewish Congress.
The arrest on June 13, reportedly
on charges of fraud and embezzlement,
came just hours after 26 Lubavitch
rabbis gathered to elect Rabbi Berel
Lazar the chief rabbi of Russia.
While unconnected on the surface,
the two developments are linked in
that they could have major implica-
tions for Russian Jewry and its rela-
tions to the Kremlin.
Russia's chief rabbi is important
because that individual is the only offi-
cial representative of the Jewish corn-
munity recognized by the government.
The election of Lazar as chief rabbi
comes just a week after the country's
chief rabbi for the past decade,
Adolph Shayevich, accused the
Russian government of seeking his
ouster.
Rabbi Shayevich, who is backed by
Goussinsky's Russian Jewish Congress,
later backtracked from his statement,
but has insisted that he had felt pres-
sure to resign, especially from the
Lubavitch.

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