“This flag does not contradict the current law of the Russian Federation and so there is no basis to cancel or change it.” The Jewish Autonomous Oblast, or region, was designated by Stalinist ...

capital of the Jewish Autonomous Oblast (JAO). Part of Joseph Stalin’s nation-building policy for minorities, in which national groups were assigned largely autonomous territories, the JAO was ...

the Jewish Autonomous Oblast (JAO), with its capital Birobidzhan, and merge it with the Khabarovsk region. The statements of the vice-premier sparked outrage, according to Asia News, and the ...