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Most Russian Jews in the presidential election will vote for Vladimir Putin. This was announced in an interview with the Israeli newspaper Ha'aretz by the main rabbi of Russia Berl Lazar. "Perhaps if there was a greater choice of candidates, they would vote for someone else. But I personally do not know a single Jew who would vote for Prokhorov, for example," Lazar said.

He added that the lack of bright young politicians is a problem. “All these people - Zyuganov, Zhirinovsky - we have heard many times. These are all the same people,” Lazar said. According to Ha'aretz, Berl Lazar is forced to balanced on a subtle line between the authorities and the Jewish community, many representatives of which participated in the anti -Putin rallies of recent months.

According to the publication, meeting recently with religious leaders, Putin asked Lazar where the Jews will be the next Saturday. Lazar replied that in the synagogue. "What about protests?" Putin asked. To this, Lazar replied that Jews should be in the synagogue.

The day before, it became known that the former president of the Russian Jewish Congress, Vladimir Gusinsky, sold the RTVI channel. According to unconfirmed reports, the owner of RTVI became the television and radio company "Star". As the leading Roman Karlov told Kommersant, the details of the transaction will most likely become known only after the election. According to him, if the TV channel really passes into the possession of Moscow holdings close to the Kremlin, or simply directly to the state, "there is an option that Gusinsky will be able to return to Moscow as an actor of some new media project in the near future."

“In October 2009, Gusinsky, in an interview with the Israeli publication, Marker stated that he really wants to return to Russia, and he perfectly understands how he said that there are certain problems. RTVI, probably, was such a problem in the eyes of the official Russian authorities to return Gusinsky,” said Karlov.

At the same time, according to Karlov, "the main emphasis that was made today is as follows: Gusinsky sold only RTVI television channel, this deal does not apply to its other media assets."

24 Another disgraced oligarch Mikhail Khodorkovsky stated that he would vote in the presidential election for an “alternative candidate”. “I would definitely go to vote if he had not been deprived of this right. And would vote for one of the“ alternative ”candidates who are more likely symbols of the country's possible future development, but not candidates for victory. Understanding that these elections are, I would nevertheless show what kind of development vector I personally act,” Khodorkovsky said.