russian ex kgb jew buy's independent

[dk70]

http://uk.finance.yahoo.com/news/russia ... 37e6b.html

[joeblow]

This thread is not acceptable, please do not create such empty threads, otherwise they shall be simply deleted.

[MikeWB]

Except that he's Russian Orthodox Christian who's donated money to the Russian church and built christian churches in several towns... and also holds some oder of the Russian church. Yeah, he's a Jew.  :roll:

Can we please cut down on nonsense  disinfo threads on TiU? Just throwing around "jew this" and "jew that" is stupid. I think we need a "Bullshit" forum to move crap like this into. That could be better than deleting them. Clearly this thread should not be in Current News with its current title since it's false. Nonsense in a subforum that's open to public gives us a bad name. Other sites have a way to flag a thread as nonsense but phpBB lacks that. So moving it elsewhere would be a great way to deal with this issue.

[joeblow]

Your wish is my command, subform Disinformation shall be created. "Bullshit" is a little too harsh!

[abduLMaria]

"Lebedev, a wealthy Russian oligarch, bought London's Evening Standard newspaper for a nominal one pound in January last year in a deal which made him co-owner with his son Evgeny. It became a free paper in October.

He has interests in banking and aviation and already co-owns, with ex-Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev, a 49-percent holding in the Novaya Gazeta newspaper, which has been critical of the Kremlin (Frankfurt: 513350 - news) ."

if he's not Jewish, he's the exception.  most of the Russian Oligarchs were assigned properties worth $Billions during the break-up of the Soviet Union.  that doesn't happen by accident.  i smell the hand of Russian organized crime and the Mossad and related criminal organizations (CIA, MI6).  of course, that's just a guess.

[MikeWB]

if he's not Jewish, he's the exception.  most of the Russian Oligarchs were assigned properties worth $Billions during the break-up of the Soviet Union.  that doesn't happen by accident.  i smell the hand of Russian organized crime and the Mossad and related criminal organizations (CIA, MI6).  of course, that's just a guess.

Not all oligarchs are Jewish. Most of those that are have fled to Israel and Europe years ago. Lebedev might be a crook and a thief (probably is but I don't know for sure) and a lot of things but he's not jewish.

[sullivan]

Not all oligarchs are Jewish. Most of those that are have fled to Israel and Europe years ago. Lebedev might be a crook and a thief (probably is but I don't know for sure) and a lot of things but he's not jewish.

I don't know about this particular individual, but the surname certainly is very Jewish - being derived from "Swan" (лебед). He could be one of the not insignificant numbers of Russian Jewish who converted to the Russian Orthodox faith. Who knows?