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On July 5, Russian news agencies reported that the Jewish Agency for Israel, or Sokhnut, is about to be banned by the Russian government. Sokhnut denied the news, saying it continued operating in Russia as usual.However, on July 14, the Russian Foreign Ministry stated that if the agency, a semi-government organization coordinating the affairs of Jewish diaspora in Russia, wants to maintain its presence, it must rectify issues brought up by inspectors of the Russian Justice Ministry. No explanation was provided.Four days later, the Basmanny District Court in Moscow announced that the Justice Ministry wanted to liquidate Sokhnut, again without providing details.The Court held a closed preliminary hearing on the case on July 28, with the next hearing on August 19.The move against Sokhnut followed the election in July of Israel’s new prime minister, Yair Lapid, who has called Russia’s war in Ukraine "a grave violation of the international order."But the Kremlin’s spokesman, Dmitry Peskov, denied that a political payback was behind the proposed ban.In fact
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