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The decision of the Krasnodar Regional Court, who supported the decision on the expulsion of the main rabbi of the Sochi city Jewish community of Arya Edelkopf from Russia, will be protested. This was stated by the chief rabbi of Russia Berl Lazar, reports RBC.

“Of course, we will protest this decision, we will turn to the highest courts,” Lazar said.

“The news about the decision of the Sochi court, which deprived the city rabbi permission to live in Russia, causes extremely alarming feelings,” said the main rabbi of Russia. According to him, the Jews in the country have always felt protected. "They really saw that the state is respectful to their traditions, their religion. And suddenly in one of the large Russian cities there is an actual expulsion of the rabbi with the whole family, including small children! Moreover, they do not provide us with any intelligible explanations," Lazar emphasized.

Edelkopf "stood at the very origins of the Sochi community, in fact he created it from scratch," the chief rabbi noted. "The believers of the city are very attached to him, I know this firsthand. Now they are actually left without a rabbi, that is, they cannot fully use their right to send a religious cult," Lazar said.

On Tuesday, the Court of Appeal of the Krasnodar Regional Court supported the decision of the Central District Court of Sochi, which refused Edelkopfu in the lawsuit against the management of the migration of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs in the Krasnodar Territory, Interfax reported . As follows from the case file, in December 2016, Edelkopfu has been canceled the permission to live in Russia, which "by its actions pose a threat to the security of" the country. The basis was the FSB response to a request from the police after the rabbi applied for the registration of Russian citizenship.

Rabbi’s lawyer Mikhail Schoolboy filed a petition for the demand for primary documents from the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the FSB, including the correspondence between departments and information on whether this information is GOSTIIN. However, the regional court rejected these requests.

"The courts of the first and appeal instances reacted to the fate of a person formally. In the case there is absolutely no facts and evidence that Edelcopfa made some actions against Russia that it posed a threat to its security. He lived in this country for 16 years, his seven children grew up." Due to the fact that the decision of the court of first instance entered into force, Edelkopf will have to immediately leave the Russian territory, otherwise He is facing a deportation. "

On February 5, Edelkopf said that he and his family are facing a deportation . The basis, he explained, the officials called subparagraph 1 of paragraph 1 of Article 7 of the Law "On the Legal Status of Foreign Citizens in Russia", which provides for the expulsion of foreigners, if they "advocate for a violent change in the foundations of the constitutional system of the Russian Federation, other actions pose a threat to the security of the Russian Federation or citizens of the Russian Federation." What exactly the statements or actions of the rabbi were considered dangerous, he did not explain in his publication.

The Federation of Jewish communities of Russia spoke in support of Edelkopf. The head of the Department of Public Relations Feor Borukh Gorin noted that the rabbi has been working in Sochi 16 years old. Gorin explained the claims to Edelkopfu "by the desire of excessively zealous officials to get new stars for the manifested activity in eliminating allegedly" violations of the rule of law ".

Arya Leib Edelkopf was born in 1978 in Israel, since 1988 he has US citizenship. He has a wife and seven children, all of them are citizens of Israel, live in Sochi. Edelcopf's parents left Russia to the United States in the 1920s according to religious beliefs.