Posted on 03/09/2022 8:52:49 PM PST by SeekAndFind
TEL AVIV - Russian-Israeli oligarch Leonid Nevzlin announced on Tuesday that he planned to give up his Russian passport in protest of Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
"Everything that Putin touches dies," Nevzlin wrote in a Facebook post. "I am against the war. I am against the occupation. I am against the genocide of the Ukrainian people."
Nevzlin was among the first prominent Russian oligarchs to establish self-imposed exile in Israel, fleeing what he has described as a campaign of politically-motivated persecution by Russian President Vladimir Putin.
In 2003, Nevzlin fled Russia for Israel amid a Kremlin-backed investigation into his Yukos oil company. Nevzlin co-owned Yukos with Mikhail Khodorkovsky, who was imprisoned by a Moscow court on charges of fraud, and, later, of embezzlement and money laundering.
Israel has refused requests for Nevzlin's extradition to face charges in Russia of murder, attempted murder and financial crimes.
Nevzlin has denied all charges and has said they are attempts by Putin to silence him and other critics.
"I was one of the first to be hit by Putin. He threw my friends in jails, and killed some of them," wrote Nevzlin. "I have spent almost twenty years outside Russia, but that is exactly what has allowed me to see its process of rotting and decomposing."
In the years following Russia's annexation of Ukraine's Crimean Peninsula in 2014, a new wave of wealthy Russian citizens, including former Chelsea Premier League soccer team owner and longtime Putin supporter Roman Abramovich, took up Israeli citizenship in part to avoid the resulting U.S. sanctions. Many continue to have business and financial ties in Russia and have been cautious against publicly criticizing the war.
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Well Putin and Brandon have something in common.
...now can I keep all my things?
I remember the famous French Actor Gerard Depardieu publicly stated he was handing back his French passport way back in 2012 and taking on Russian Citizenship.
I wonder what ever happened to him.
I remember the famous French Actor Gerard Depardieu publicly stated he was handing back his French passport way back in 2012 and taking on Russian Citizenship.
I wonder what ever happened to him.
Must be deep state WEF biolab worker paid by Soros.
Right?
Oligarch renounces US citizenship, saying ‘everything Biden touches dies’
Listen, Leonid Nevzlin, you gutless POS, read the Declaration of Archbishop Carlo Maria Vigano, Former Apostolic Nuncio to The United States of America, on the Russia-Ukraine Crisis. After you have read it, without, I anticipate, the slightest understanding, fall into the closest pigsty, among your close associates. Certainly, the pigs won’t notice your stench
He is right. Putin has brought a new hatred of “Russia” to a new high.
Hey world, can I keep my yacht now?
He's doing fine, other than being pursued by #MeTooers...
From the Archbishop’s writing (it should be a book)...
“It is evident that the Ukrainian people, beyond the issues that diplomacy can resolve, are victims of the same global coup d’état being carried out by supranational powers that intend, not peace between nations, but rather the establishment of the tyranny of the New World Order. Just a few days ago, Ukrainian parliamentarian Kira Rudik told Fox News, while holding a kalashnikov: “We know that we are not only fighting for Ukraine, but also for the New World Order.”
Has anyone posted the Archbishop’s declaration?
He wants to keep his yacht.
Who knows if this it true.
What you say after you lose your $10 million yacht
What a joke....
Oligarch Leonid Nevzlin was a former Russian tycoon for 20 yrs... who ripped off the Russian people bigtime.... who Putin kicked out of Russia - if they lived that long when he came into office. Many of who ran to other nations. The guys a bad guy - make no mistake.
He’s with the bunch of them that thought they could keep Putin under their thumbs and he showed them otherwise.
the write for WaPo via Telegraph is Shira Rubin:
17 Jan 2017: Vocativ: The Davos Elite Highlights World’s Growing Discord
Chinese President Xi Jinping on Davos’ main stage calls globalization a “double-edged sword”
By ***Shira Rubin
In the opening plenary that kicked off the four-day celebration of global capitalism and open markets in the posh Swiss mountain village, Xi Jinping added that “all signatories should stick to the” Paris accords to protect the environment — an open nudge at Trump’s anti-climate change stance.
The center-stage prominence of the Chinese Communist Party, and the Chinese leader’s ebullient defense of the “double-edged sword” of globalization on Tuesday, epitomized the strange uncertainty facing the current world order — which Donald Trump has vowed to rework once he takes office on Friday — and also placing a screeching question mark over the future status for the world’s uber-rich CEOs, lobbyists, politicians, and celebrity classes indulging in canapes and champagne at the Swiss mountain village this week.
It follows a year which along with the election of Donald Trump, experienced the rise of far-right populist, ethno-nationalist movements throughout continental Europe and a call throughout the West to “Build That Wall.” But nonetheless, embattled experts in Davos tweeted optimistically of their ability to fulfill the conference’s stated aim to “improve the state of the world.”...
President-elect Donald Trump, who recently called NATO “obsolete,” was notably absent from the event but his top adviser Anthony Scaramucci said the president-elect was committed to making the current world order work “better.”...
https://www.vocativ.com/393554/davos-2017/index.html
Yale Environment 360: Shira Rubin is a journalist based in Tel Aviv. She is an Israel correspondent for The Washington Post and has reported from the Middle East and Europe for publications such as The Atlantic, Bloomberg, Newsweek, Undark and New Scientist.
Embracing a Wetter Future, the Dutch Turn to Floating Homes by Shira Rubin - Dec 2021
https://e360.yale.edu/authors/shira-rubin
World Economic Forum has an Agenda page for her with the Dutch Floating Homes rubbish as well.
Great post! It’s gathering several of the laughable Putin trolls whom Pooty’s likely to send the FSB after for being so unconvincing.
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