I don't know how true that is. A forum member (perhaps a former member) is a Russian and Jewish, living in the US. He told me even today the Jews aren't on equal footing with non-Jewish Russians. They are restricted in many areas. For a time (not sure if it is still true) Jews were restricted in which areas of study they are allowed to take in universities so as to avoid creating political instigators. I'd really have to hear it from more than one anonymous bearded dude speaking at a conference. Who is that, anyway?
I had been hearing the same sorts of things on the forum for some years. But never looked into it. In the past, like many, I thought of Russia as have the best political situation in Europe. I put it on the shelf.
When I finally did some research it did not take long for this idea to collapse. Almost all of the oligarchs in Russia are not Russian. I don't know the exact percentage, but I suspect more than half are Jews, who account for about 0.4% of the population. I believe the ones that are Russian are low level and friends of Putin. But what really made me question the nature of Russia is their music, which is again heavily over-represented by Jewish artists and owners, and they put out some seriously deranged and satanic music. Have a search on
Invidious for Ганвест or Моргенштерн - Новая Волна. They are quite vocal supporters of ВВП.
Someone did point out in another thread that Putin's alliance with Bashar al-Assad is however a serious overstep of any alliance with Jews and Israel. It was maybe the main goal of Zionists to get rid of Ghadafi, Assad, Saddam, the leadership in Iran and Hezbollah. The likes of Bill Kristol were talking about using racially-targeted biowaepons of the time. So what exactly is going on there is obviously mixed. Maybe if a period of unrest comes we might find a Russia's owners get novichok'd.
One thing that is very obvious about Russia is it's level of corporatisation. In particular, it is difficult to get much food from anywhere other than major chain supermarkets. And that food is not much good. If I go into a Russian supermarket I struggle to find anything to buy. They even plonk giant mega-supermarkets in villages, ensuring that all the small business will go under, and their owners will have to get new jobs stacking shelves. Very different case in Serbia, though their fully-owned "leaders" are putting an end to this. For example there is a village in Serbia with a population of about 3,500. It probably has about 15-20 cafes, about 10 grocery stores, 6-7 hardware stores, a few other stores and a market on Wednesdays.
Yandex Taxi has also smashed up taxi drivers, reducing them to low-paid drivers who don't own a car in many cases.
This is the model for The West, China and Russia. Tito was probably a better leader in such regards.
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