Vadim Rabinovich

Vadim Rabinovich is born in 1953 to jewish parents in Kharkov, Urkaine; his father an army officer, his mother a physician. His life in the Soviet Union is determined by the laws of survival in an economy of shortage, the limits set on private initiative, and anti-semitism which blocks certain career paths for jews. Oligarchs are business tycoons who got rich from privatizations after the collapse of the state planned economy in the Soviet Union. One of them is Rabinovich who agreed to a series of interviews with Roth in 1999 and 2000. 2021 launched a failed attempt at impeaching Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, who is also Jewish, over the government’s shuttering of three television stations deemed to be pro-Russian.