Today’s Jewish community of Armenia, though, has its roots in the 19th century, when the Russian Empire conquered the South Caucasus. Armenian cities attracted Jews from all corners of the empire.

According to official figures issued here, the Jewish population in White Russia forms 13% of the whole, in the province of Homel it is 7.7%, in the province of Witebsk 8%, in the Ukraine 7%, and ...

This area became part of the Russian Empire after the First Partition of Poland (1772), some twenty years before other provinces that formed the Pale of Settlement (1793, 1795).

An angry crowd in Russia’s mostly Muslim region of Dagestan stormed an airport where a flight from Israel arrived on Sunday, forcing authorities to close the facility and divert flights.

According to the Russian Jewish Congress, there are nearly 180,000 Jews in Russia, 70 percent of them living in Moscow and St. Petersburg, many of them well-educated and working in specialist ...

A Russian court has sentenced the decorated Russian-Jewish writer Masha Gessen to eight years in prison in absentia over comments they made about the country’s conduct in the Ukraine war in 2022. The ...

Russia's Justice Ministry has demanded the closure of the Russian branch of the Jewish Agency for Israel, Sohnut, which processes the immigration of Jews to Israel. Accessibility links.