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EAJC Moscow Office Executive Director Natalia Schmidt
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EAJC Moscow Office Director: “Please provide an explanation of certain unclear moments in registration documents”
26.02.2018, Region Several days ago, the Executive Director of the Moscow office of the Euro-Asian Jewish Congress Natalia Schmidt has sent a letter to the legal advisor of the Israel non-profit organization (amuta) “Euro-Asian Jewish Congress” requesting an explanation for why the elected governing bodies of the Euro-Asian Jewish Congress do not coincide with those that have been registered at the Israeli Ministry of Justice. She has since proposed to make her letter public, and we have agreed to do so.
To the Legal Advisor of the NPO “Euro-Asian Jewish Congress”
On the subject of a difference in the composition of elected EAJC governing bodies and of the bodies that have been registered at the Ministry of Justice of Israel
Dear Legal Advisor of the NPO “Euro-Asian Jewish Congress”,
As you are, according to your own words, the legal advisor of the non-profit “Euro-Asian Jewish Congress” in Israel, and as your office has, again, according to your own words, has been confirmed by the President and Director of this organization, I would like to make a request that you elucidate certain difficult moments in this organization’s registration documents.
According to the protocols of the General Assembly (as I understand, this means the congress) and the Euro-Asian Jewish Congress Board meeting that took place in Ramat Gan (Israel) on July 24, 2017, that have been submitted to the Israel Ministry of Justice (both documents have been appended to this letter, both in their original Hebrew and in a Russian translation), we see the following:
The EAJC Governing Board includes the following persons:
Mikhail Mirilashvili
Aaron Frenkel
Timur Ben-Yehuda
Rami Levi
Josef Zissels (representative of the organization which represents the Jewish communities of Ukraine)
Evgenia Lvova
Inessa Chugainova (representative of the organization which represents the Jewish communities of Kazakhstan)
Maksim Pasik
Mr. Mirilashvili has been elected to the position of Chairman of the Governing Board
Mr. Ben Yehuda was elected to the position of First Deputy Chairman of the Governing Board
Mr. Levi was elected to the position of Deputy Chairman of the Governing Board
However, according to Appendix 2 to the Protocol (also appended to this letter) of the actual EAJC General Assembly that took place at the aforementioned time and place, and in which you also personally took part, the following individiuals were elected to the Governing Board:
1. Frenkel Aaron - Governing Board Chairman
2. Ben-Yehuda Timur - First Deputy
3. Emmanuil Grinshpun
4. Zakharyaev German
5. Shabad Mark
7. Elashvili Merab
8. Jacobashvili David
9. Belinkis Aleksandr
10. Shenkman Aleksandr
11. Levin Aleksandr
12. Levi Rami
13. Michaeli Itzik
14. Pasik Maksim
16. Mirilashvili Mikhail - EAJC President
17. Bushuyev Menachem - EAJC Treasurer (in a consultative capacity)
18. Haim Ben Yaakov - Acting EAJC Director General (in a consultative capacity)
19. Michael Chlenov - Chairman of the Strategic Council (in a consultative capacity)
20. Josef Zisels - EAJC Program Commission Chairman
21. Evgenia Lvova - Russia
22. Natalia Schmidt - Russia (in a consultative capacity)
23. Victor Shapiro - Russia
24. Valeriy Gurevich - Russia
25. Mark Goldin - Russia
26. Irina Chernyak - Russia
27. Mikhail Oshtrah - Russia
28. Semen Belman - Ukraine
29. Michael Gold - Ukraine
30. Alexander Dukhovny - Ukraine
31. Leonid Finberg - Ukraine
32. Evgeniy Ziskind - Ukraine
33. Alexander Baron - Kazkahstan (in a consultative capacity)
34. Inessa Chugainova - Kazakhstan
36. Vladimir Chernitsky - Belarus
36-1 Vadim Akopyan - Belarus
36-2 Victoria Brumina - Belarus
37. Marina Shuster - Moldova
37-1 Evgeniy Kleinerman - Moldova
38. Elena Berkovich - Georgia
38-1 Guram Tetrashvili - Georgia
39. Rimma Vardjapetyan - Armenia
40. Aleksand Sharovsky - Azerbaijan
40-1 Matvei Elizarov - Azerbaijan
41. Vladimir Kritzman - Kyrgyzstan
42. ………………………………………. Uzbekistan
43. ………………………………………. Tajikistan
45. Sandra Papo Fisher - Serbia
47. Jelena Đurović - Montenegro
48. Albania
49. Boris Cherin - Slovenia
50. Juda Samuel - India
51. Sumati Levsandendev - Mongolia
52. Sami Samuel - Myanmar
53. Philipp Rosenfeld - Japan
54. ……………………………………….. Philippines
55. Stephen Goodman - New Zealand
56. David Mordukhaev - World Congress of Mountain Jews
57. David Baazov - World Congress of Georgian Jews.
58. Irina Scherban - Union of Jewish Community Homes
59. Vadim Polyansky - Maccabi CIS
60. Victoria Mochalova - Sefer
61. Svetlana Yakimenko - Kesher
62. Aleksandr Kargin - Shahar
63. Oleg Mortkovich - MSEBUF
Even if we assume that there has been a mistake in the General Assembly Protocol and the Governing Board has been mixed up with the Executive Committee, the names still do not match. According to the Extraordinary General Assembly Protocol, the following persons were elected to the Executive Committee:
Mikhail Mirilashvili - EAJC President
Aaron Frenkel - EAJC Governing Board Chairman
………………………….. – EAJC Trustee Board Chairman
Timur Ben-Yehuda - First EAJC Vice President
German Zakharyaev - First EAJC Vice President
David Jacobashvili - First EAJC Vice President
Rami Levi - First EAJC Vice President
………………………………. - Deputy EAJC Governing Board Chairman
Josef Zisels - EAJC Program Commission Chairman
Evgenia Lvova - EAJC Governing Board member (Russian Federation)
Inessa Chugainova - EAJC Governing Board member (Republic of Kazakhstan)
Maksim Pasik
Aleksandr Bilinkis
In a consultative capacity:
Menachem Bushuyev - EAJC Treasurer
Haim Ben Yaakov - Acting EAJC Director General
Michael Chlenov - Chairman of the Strategic Council
Alexander Baron - Member of the Strategic Council
Thus, as we can see from the list above, certain well-respected community members seem to have “disappeared” from the list of elected officials, including our long-term Vice Presidents, such as German Zakharyayev, David Jacobashvili, and Aleksandr Bilinkis; and, of course, representatives of founding organizations, Michael Chlenov and Alexander Baron.
Next, there are also inconsistencies in the roster and leadership of the Revision Commission.
The Protocol registered at Israel’s Ministry of Justice lists the following roster:
Ms. Anna Smolina
Ms. Victoria Godik
Ms. Victoria Litvinova has been elected to the post of Chairman of the Revision Commission
In the Extraordinary General Assembly Protocol:
Evgenia Mikhaleva
Anna Smolina
Victoria Godik
Aleksandr Lyskovoy
Ekaterina Ivanova
The list of EAJC member organizations also lacks the Jewish communities of such countries as Serbia and Albania, as well as the community of Mountain Jews of Azerbaijan.
In light of all of the above, I strongly urge you to provide an explanation of these discrepancies, as well as to elucidate the relationship between the Euro-Asian Jewish Congress, an international organization registered in 2002, and the organization under the same name that was registered in Israel in 2015 by yourself and Mr. Ben Yaakov, and which was re-registered in 2017 after the Assembly.
Respectfully and with gratitude,
Natalia Schmidt
Executive Director
EAJC Moscow Office
The legal advisor of the “EAJC” Israeli Amuta replied to Natalia Schmidt, saying that he is unable to provide an official answer, as, according to his contract, he is only allowed to disclose the relevant information and provide legal consultations when given a direct request by his employer, the EAJC Director. He encouraged he Executive Director of the EAJC Moscow Office to send an official request to the governing bodies of the EAJC.
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