Tag: JAO

Who Will ‘Swallow Up’ the Jewish Autonomous Oblast – Khabarovsk Region or China?

March 5, 2015

Staunton, March 5 – Two weeks ago, Vladimir Putin named Aleksandr Levintal to head the Jewish Autonomous Oblast (JAO) in the Russian Far East, an action that Konstantin Kalachev says has reopened talk about the future of a region rich in natural resources but which “in fact is cut off from the rest of Russia” […]