Политика и общественные деятели

Энтони Блинкен

U.S. Secretary of State, rooted in Kyiv

Берни Сандерс

U.S. Senator shaped by a father's flight from empire

Борис Джонсон

UK PM with roots in the Russian Empire

Кристя Фриланд

Canada's deputy PM, shaped by Soviet Ukraine

Давид Бен-Гурион

Israel's founder, born in Płońsk, Russian Empire

Элена Каган

First female Solicitor General, SCOTUS Justice

Голда Меир

Israel's Iron Lady, born in Kyiv

Майкл Блумберг

NYC mayor, billionaire, grandson of a Russian émigré

Майкл Игнатьев

Canadian statesman shaped by imperial Russian exile

Натан Щаранский

Soviet dissident who defied the KGB for Israel

Ник Клегг

UK Deputy PM with Russian imperial roots

Адам Шифф

California senator who rose through federal law.

Александр Беркман

Russian-born anarchist who attempted to assassinate a steel baron and shaped American radical politics

Александр Литвиненко

The spy who came in from the cold—and told all.

Алексей Навальный

Russia's most prominent dissident, martyred for truth.

Анна Чапман

Russia's most glamorous Cold War ghost

Ариэль Шарон

From Brest-Litovsk roots to Israel's Iron Wall.

Авигдор Либерман

Soviet-born powerbroker who reshaped Israeli politics.

Барни Балабан

Son of Russian-Jewish immigrants who became president of Paramount Pictures for nearly 30 years

Бен Бернанке

The economist who kept the world from the abyss.

Билл Браудер

Grandson of a Communist, foe of the Kremlin

Хаим Вейцман

Chemist from Pinsk who became the first President of Israel

Клаудиа Шейнбаум

Mexico's first female president, granddaughter of Jewish immigrants from the Russian Empire

Доминик Рааб

Former UK Deputy Prime Minister whose father fled Czechoslovakia with Russian imperial roots

Эдуард Лимонов

Provocateur, punk novelist, and opposition politician born in Dzerzhinsk who made Paris and New York his stage

Эли Коэн

Egypt-born Israeli spy who infiltrated Syria's inner circle and gave Israel victory in the Six-Day War

Эмма Гольдман

Lithuanian-born anarchist who became the most dangerous woman in America

Эфраим Кацир

Kyiv-born biophysicist who became the fourth President of Israel

Джордж Блейк

Dutch-British double agent who spied for the KGB and became one of the Cold War's most notorious moles

Грант Шаппс

UK Defence Secretary whose family came from Lithuania and Russia in the Russian Empire era

Грегор Гизи

German leftist politician whose mother was born in St. Petersburg and whose great-grandmother was Russian nobility

Хайнрих Цертик

Kazakhstan-born Russlanddeutscher who became a CDU politician representing Germany's Russian-German community

Хелен Сузман

Lithuanian-Russian Jewish South African who stood alone in parliament against apartheid for 13 years

Генри Киссинджер

German-Jewish refugee who became America's most consequential Secretary of State

Хайман Риковер

Born in Russian-controlled Poland, became the Father of the Nuclear Navy

Дж. Б. Прицкер

Governor of Illinois whose great-grandfather emigrated from Kyiv and built the Hyatt hotel empire

Джанет Йеллен

US Treasury Secretary and first female Fed Chair — her father emigrated from the Russian Empire's Polish territories

Джаред Полис

Governor of Colorado — his grandparents fled Eastern Europe and the Russian Empire to build an American family

Джо Слово

Born in a Lithuanian shtetl, became the white communist leader of the ANC armed struggle against apartheid

Джон Кей

Former New Zealand Prime Minister whose mother escaped Vienna — her family had Russian Empire roots

Джош Фрайденберг

Australian Treasurer and deputy Liberal leader whose mother's family survived the Holocaust in Hungary

Ким Филби

Britain's most damaging spy — the Cambridge Five leader who defected to Moscow in 1963

Константин Развозов

Born in Birobidzhan — the Jewish Autonomous Region — became an Israeli tech entrepreneur

Леви Эшколь

Born in Ukraine, became Israel's third Prime Minister and led the country through the Six-Day War

Мадлен Олбрайт

First female US Secretary of State — her family fled Nazi Europe, with roots in Russian-ruled Jewish communities

Малкольм Рифкинд

UK Foreign Secretary with Lithuanian-Jewish roots — one of Britain's most distinguished diplomats

Маргарет Ходж

UK Labour politician with Russian-Jewish roots who became the most feared tax investigator in Parliament

Мария Бутина

Barnaul-born Russian operative who infiltrated the NRA and US Republican circles — imprisoned then deported

Марк Дрейфус

Australia's Attorney-General whose grandparents fled the Russian Empire to build a new life

Менахем Бегин

Born in Brest-Litovsk — from the Irgun to the Nobel Peace Prize and the Egypt-Israel peace treaty

Меррик Гарланд

US Attorney General and almost-Supreme Court Justice — his grandparents fled the Russian Empire's pogroms

Моше Даян

Born in Ukraine, became Israel's most iconic military commander — the eye patch and the Six-Day War

Моше Шарет

Born in Kherson, Ukraine — Israel's second Prime Minister and first Foreign Minister

Роза Люксембург

Born in the Russian Empire's Polish territories — the most important female revolutionary thinker of the 20th century

Рудольф Абель

Born in England to Russian revolutionary parents — became the KGB's greatest illegal spy in America

Рут Бейдер Гинзбург

Her mother's parents came from Odessa — the Notorious RBG became America's most beloved Supreme Court Justice

Сергей Скрипаль

Former GRU colonel and double agent poisoned with Novichok in Salisbury — one of the Cold War's most dramatic epilogues

Сергей Шойгу

Tuvan-Russian Defence Minister who oversaw Russia's catastrophic invasion of Ukraine

Шимон Перес

From Pale of Settlement to President of Israel

Симон Визенталь

Born in Buchach, Ukraine — Holocaust survivor who hunted Nazis for 50 years and brought Eichmann's colleagues to justice

Симона Вей

Holocaust survivor with Russian Jewish roots who legalised abortion in France and became its moral conscience

София Ландвер

Born in Leningrad — became Israel's Minister of Immigrant Absorption and voice of the Russian-speaking community

Таль Гилбоа

Israeli singer with Romanian-Russian Jewish roots who won The X Factor Israel

Тали Плосков

Born in Balti, Moldova — Israeli actress and public figure from the Russian-speaking community

Тони Леон

South African opposition leader whose family came from Lithuania and Russia — led the Democratic Alliance against apartheid's legacy

Виталий Кличко

Born in Kyrgyzstan — WBC heavyweight champion, PhD in sports science, Mayor of Kyiv during Russia's war

Владимир Кара-Мурза

Moscow journalist who survived two poisoning attempts and was imprisoned by Putin — then won the Pulitzer Prize

Фолькер Бек

Вольфганг Лотц

Ицхак Бен-Цви

Born in Poltava, Ukraine — became Israel's second President and a founding father of the Jewish state

Ицхак Рабин

His mother Rosa Cohen came from Mogilev, Belarus — he led Israel to peace and was assassinated for it

Ицхак Шамир

Born in Ruzhany, Belarus — Stern Gang leader turned Prime Minister, the hardest man in Israeli politics

Юли Эдельштейн

Born in Chernivtsi, Ukraine — imprisoned by the KGB as a Zionist, became Speaker of the Israeli Knesset

Залман Шазар

Born in Mir, Belarus — Israel's third President and the poet-statesman of the founding generation

Зеэв Элькин

Born in Kharkiv — Israeli Cabinet minister and one of the most prominent Russian-born politicians in Israel

Марина Вайсбанд

Kyiv-born political director of Germany's Pirate Party — a new kind of democratic voice

Сергей Лагодинский

Volgograd-born MEP who became Germany's leading Russian-origin voice in the European Parliament

Пауль Земяк

CDU politician and former party secretary-general with Eastern European roots

Вальтер Хомолка

Germany's leading liberal rabbi — rebuilt Jewish life in Germany with Russian-Jewish diaspora roots