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Rumors That Putins Successor Is Jewish Has Community Worried

February 24, 2008

The Jewish community of Russia is worried over a rumor campaign by nationalist parties claiming that Dmitri Medvedev, President Vladimir Putins handpicked successor, is Jewish.

Russian Jewish leaders declined to comment on the rumors officially, fearing to lend them credibility. Off the record, however, one said: “I pray it isnt true, because it would only make trouble, for him and for us.”

Medvedev, who recently told a Russian weekly that he was baptized into the Russian Orthodox Church at age 23, has not commented on these rumors. But Russian Internet sites are full of reports about his alleged Jewish roots.
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The rumors are based in part on the fact that his maternal grandfathers first name was Veniamin - similar to the Hebrew Binyamin Benjamin - while his family name, Shaposhnikov, is sometimes a Jewish name. But beyond that, accusing an electoral rival of being Jewish is a tactic that nationalist parties have employed in the past, both in Russia and in other former communist countries.

Nikolai Bondarik, who heads the St. Petersburg branch of the nationalist Russian Party, told the Moscow Times on Wednesday “we are categorically against him [Medvedev] because he is an ethnic Jew and does not conceal his sympathies toward Judaism.” He also charged that with Medvedev in power, foreigners and Jews would plunder Russias natural resources; “tens of thousands” of Israelis would be given key positions in bodies such as “the police, army, and secret services”; and Russias relations with the Arab world would be destroyed.

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