A meeting of the Interfaith Women’s Council of Russia took place in Moscow, at the conference hall of the Federation for Peace and Conciliation.

The editor-in-chief of the St. Petersburg newsletter “Ami - My People” Yakov Tsukerman was decorated with the highest award of the Euro-Asian Jewish Congress (EAJC) - the “For Merits” medal.

Roman Polonsky, JAFI director of the Jewish Agency for Israel's Russian Speaking Jewry Unit, visited the Jewish community of Almaty in a working visit.

The EAJC-supported annual children’s summer camp for children has begun its work in Almaty.

Assorted news of the Jewish community of Kazakhstan.

The city of Karaganda (Kazakhstan) held a literary competition titled “No Rest for the Heart.” A book was published with works of those who won, including poetry, verses, free verse, hokku, tanka, fables, humoristic and satirical sketches, and parodies.

A session of the Coordination Council of the Union of Belarusian Jewish Public Associations and Communities (SBEOOO) took place in Minsk. The session involved current affairs important for the development of the Jewish community in the Republic of Belarus.

The head of the Jewish community of Kazakhstan, member of the People’s Assembly of Kazakhstan and the Euro-Asian Jewish Congress Presidium Alexander Baron participated in the international forum “Sherli Shejire Amanaty,” which took place in Uralsk and was timed to the Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Political Repressions. The forum was part of the project of the People’s Assembly of Kazakhstan “Memory for the Future.”