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                  EAJC Moscow Office Director: “Please provide an explanation of certain unclear moments in registration documents”

                  EAJC Moscow Office Executive Director Natalia Schmidt

                  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.