Vadim Rabinovich

Vadim Zinov'evich Rabinovich (sometimes spelled Vadym Rabynovich ( ; Russian: Вади́м Зино́вьевич Рабино́вич ; born August 4, 1953, Kharkiv , USSR ) is a Ukrainian businessman and president of the Ukrainian Jewish Congress . Rabinovich had a furniture import business, and later exported natural gas from Ukraine. Rabinovich was convicted in Ukraine for a variety of crimes and stripped of Ukrainian citizenship , but left the country and obtained Israeli citizenship . The conviction was later reversed and the citizenship restored. According to Der Spiegel , in 2002, Rabinovich and Victor Bout sold between 150 and 200 T-55 and T-62 tanks to the Taliban . Rabinovich denied the allegations. He is barred from entering the United States "for alleged involvement in organized crime, money laundering, narcotics trafficking, weapons sales to North Korea and Iraq , contract murder, and other offenses." Since 2007, Rabinovich is the president of FC Arsenal Kyiv , a professional football club in Kiev . Rabinovich is also well known for his philanthropic activities. He donated golden menorah that now overlooks the Western Wall Plaza. NIS towards restoration of the Hurva Synagogue . Hurva Synagogue restoration nears completion , Jerusalem Post , March 28, 2008. From ruin to reconstruction, the Hurva Synagogue is completed - again , Jewish Journal , March 9, 2010.

Vadym Zinoviovych Rabinovych (sometimes spelled Vadym Rabynovych ( ; ; born 4 August 1953, Kharkiv , USSR ) is a Ukrainian businessman, politician, president of the All-Ukrainian Jewish Congress and leader of the Center political party, a presidential candidate in the elections of 2014, deputy of Ukraine VIII convocation of the Opposition Bloc .

Vadim Zinovyevich Rabinovich (sometimes spelled Vadym Rabynovych ) ( ; Russian: Вади́м Зино́вьевич Рабино́вич ; ; born 4 August 1953 in Kharkiv , Ukrainian SSR , Soviet Union ), is a Ukrainian Jewish businessman, politician, president of the All-Ukrainian Jewish Congress, leader of the For life party, presidential candidate in the 2014 elections and former deputy of the Ukraine VIII faction of the Opposition Bloc . Currently he is a member of the pro-Russian block Opposition Platform — For life . "4 parties polling well for July 21 parliament election" (in Ukrainian). 4 June 2019 .

Israeli and former Ukrainian oligarch and Jewish community leader In this name that follows East Slavic naming customs , the patronymic is Zinovyevich and the family name is Rabinovich . Vadim Zinovyevich Rabinovich (born 4 August 1953) is an Israeli and formerly Ukrainian oligarch and Jewish community leader. He is a former leader of the banned Opposition Platform — For Life party, as well as an unsuccessful candidate in the 2014 Ukrainian presidential election and a People's Deputy of Ukraine from the 8th and 9th Verkhovna Rada (Ukraine's parliament) convocations, serving as a member of the Opposition Bloc from 2014 to 2019 and as a member of Opposition Platform — For Life from 2019 until he was removed from office by the party for his support of Russia during the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine . Born in Kharkiv, Rabinovich spent seven years in Soviet prisons for embezzlement and involvement with the black market, and made aliyah to Israel in the early 1990s, becoming an Israeli citizen in 1999. Rabinovich was a supporter of efforts to restore the Hurva Synagogue , for which a square was named after him after he was mistakenly believed to be deceased. In addition to his leadership of the Jewish community in Ukraine and philanthropic activities in Israel, Rabinovich is known for his support of pro-Russian politics in Ukraine, including his founding of the Opposition Platform — For Life political party and participation in the 2014 Ukrainian presidential and parliamentary elections. In 2022, Rabinovich left Ukraine shortly after the beginning of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, beforehand blaming the possibility of the war on the west and Ukraine on his Facebook. In March 2022, his position as a People's Deputy of Ukraine was terminated by Opposition Platform — For Life. The next month, Ukraine's government placed Rabinovich on a list of 111 people labelled as traitors in the war with Russia, and in July 2022, his citizenship was revoked by President Volodymyr Zelenskyy , along with Ihor Kolomoyskyi and eight other Ukrainian oligarchs. On 3 November 2022 parliament officially terminated the powers of the People's Deputy Rabinovich because of his deprivement of Ukrainian citizenship . Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty . 13 November 2013 . There are <ref group=lower-alpha> tags or templates on this page, but the references will not show without a template or template (see the help page ).