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Biography, life story of Rabinovich Vadim Zinovievich

Rabinovich Vadim Zinovievich is a Ukrainian businessman, president of the All-Ukrainian Jewish Congress.

Childhood

Vadim was born on August 4, 1953 in the city of Kharkov. My father was a military man. After the head of the Rabinovich family was fired from the army, he became an engineer at a local factory. A little later he was promoted to deputy director of the same plant for safety. Vadim's mother worked as a local doctor.

The Rabinovich family was considered very large at that time - in addition to Vadim, the couple had another son and two daughters. The Rabinoviches lived quite poorly. My father earned one hundred and twenty rubles a month, my mother only ninety rubles. As Vadim himself recalls, as a child he terribly dreamed of a bicycle and fashionable jeans, but his parents could not afford such expenses.

Education

In 1970, Vadim Rabinovich graduated from secondary school No. 45 in Kharkov. After this, he entered the Kharkov Automobile and Road Institute, but already in his fourth year he was expelled from the educational institution in disgrace for immoral behavior. At one of the lectures, Vadim Zinovievich composed a crossword puzzle with political overtones. The administration of the institute immediately expelled him from the ranks of students.

Army

In 1973, Vadim Rabinovich was drafted into the army. For two years he served in the air defense of the ground forces of the Soviet Army.

Career

Returning from the army in 1975, Rabinovich got a job as a foreman in the repair and construction department of the Kharkov City Executive Committee.

In 1986, Vadim Zinovievich began to slowly engage in business, trying to learn as much as possible about this field of activity.

In 1994 he founded the company Media International Group.

In 1995, in the company of Boris Fuksman and Alexander Rodnyansky, Rabinovich created the television channel “1+1”.

From 1997 to 2009, he served as president of the publishing house CN-Capital News.

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In 2001, he took over as head of the “Step to Unity” Form of Christians and Jews.

From 2007 until 2013, he was the president of the Arsenal Kyiv football club.

In 2008, Valim Rabinovich bought the News One TV channel.

In 2011, he became co-chair of the European Jewish Parliament.

In 2013, he became head of the News Network media group.

On March 25, 2014, Rabinovich submitted documents to register as a candidate for the presidency of Ukraine.

Social activity

As soon as he became widely known, Vadim Rabinovich began to actively support Jewish charitable organizations.

Vadim Zinovievich once donated a golden menorah (seven-barrel lamp) to the Temple Institute in Jerusalem (Israel).

On September 11, 2005, thanks to the efforts of Vadim Rabinovich, a monument to the victims of terrorism was unveiled in Kyiv.

Arrests

Rabinovich was first arrested back in 1980. He was accused of theft of state property, namely the theft of three rolls of wallpaper. Vadim Zinovievich spent nine months in a pre-trial detention cell, after which he was released due to the lack of evidence of a crime.

Soon another case was opened against Rabinovich. In the early 1980s, Vadim Zinovievich began clandestinely manufacturing wooden doors. When law enforcement agencies found out about this, Rabinovich had a hard time. In 1982, the court sentenced him to fourteen years in prison for theft of socialist property on an especially large scale. However, during the hearing, Rabinovich denied his guilt. As a result, he was placed in a psychiatric clinic in Dnepropetrovsk for a whole year, and after that he was sent to prison. While Vadim Zinovievich was in places not so remote, the entire Jewish community of Western countries and Israel was perplexed why a person was sent to prison simply for starting to run his own business.

In 1990, after serving only eight years, Rabinovich was released.

Facts from personal life

Vadim Zinovievich’s wife’s name is Irina. Rabinovich has three children, the eldest of whom is over forty years old, and the youngest is only five.

The Jewish name of Vadim Rabinovich is David.

People's Deputy of Ukraine and leader of the political party "For Life" Vadim Rabinovich on the air of the author’s program “Who will Rabinovich” on the “112 Ukraine” TV channel, he proposed to overcome corruption and revive the country. According to him, the idea of ​​economic revival of Ukraine will become the basis of his party’s election program.

“You need three things to fight corruption: desire, honesty and courage. I see that no one has much of a desire except me. Honesty is needed because I have been offered everything in these last days. And courage - because then they moved on to threats. I'm not afraid of their threats. They launched an information war against me: Levochkin, Boyko. They say that I have some estates there in Israel, somewhere else... If they find something from me, here or abroad, let them immediately take it and give it to an orphanage,” Rabinovich said.

Vadim Rabinovich. Photo: RIA Novosti / Evgeny Kotenko

Biography

Vadim Zinovievich Rabinovich was born on August 4, 1953 in Kharkov into a military family. After leaving the army, my father worked as an engineer at a plant, and then became deputy director of the plant for safety. Mother worked as a local doctor.

Education

In 1970, he graduated from Kharkov secondary school No. 45 and entered the Kharkov Automobile and Highway Institute (now the Kharkov National Automobile and Highway University), but was expelled from the fourth year of the institution. According to Rabinovich, the reason was the creation of a crossword puzzle with political overtones during lectures.

Military service

From 1973 to 1975 he served in the air defense near Kharkov.

Career

After demobilization, he worked in Kharkov as a construction management foreman.

On January 20, 1980, he was arrested on charges of embezzling public funds on an especially large scale. The investigation lasted 9 months, and Rabinovich was eventually released after personal intervention Prosecutor General of the USSR Roman Rudenko.

After his release, until 1982, he led underground workshops for the production of crystal glassware, calendars and wooden doors. At the beginning of 1982, he was arrested again on charges of embezzlement of public funds. On February 10, 1984, Rabinovich was sentenced to 14 years of imprisonment in a strict regime forced labor camp with confiscation of property and a ban on engaging in professional activities for 5 years.

In 1990 he was released from prison in accordance with the decree Mikhail Gorbachev for lack of corpus delicti.

After his early release in 1991, together with the former head of his camp detachment Andrey Aleshin created the Pinta company.

In early 1992, after unsuccessful attempts to trade in Italian furniture and British cosmetics, he began to export metal.

Since 1993, he has been a representative of Nordex in Ukraine. The company was the exclusive operator for the supply of oil to Ukraine.

In 1996, he founded the company RICO (Rabinovich and Company) in Geneva, soon renamed RC-Group (or RC-Capital-Group).

In 1999, the Security Service of Ukraine banned Rabinovich from entering the country for a period of 5 years due to information received about his involvement “in activities causing significant losses to the Ukrainian economy.” Rabinovich himself called the reason for the ban on his entry into Ukraine “irreconcilable differences” with the then Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine Vladimir Gorbulin.

Later it became known that the SBU’s decision was made in connection with the leak through Rabinovich of information about Ukraine’s sale of weapons to Yugoslavia, despite the international embargo.

In 1995 he became one of the founders of the 1+1 TV channel.

At the beginning of 1997, Rabinovich sold 50% of the shares of 1+1 for an amount, as he personally emphasized, more than $10 million, but less than $100 million.

In 1998, he created the publishing house “CN - Capital News”, which owned a number of publications, in particular, the weekly magazine of the same name.

In 2000, he created the company Media International Group (MIG), which included the publishing house CN-Capital News, the newspaper MIGnovosty in Ukraine and MIGnews in Israel, the weekly Delovaya Nedelya and several online publications.

In the summer of 2007, he acquired the Arsenal football club, but after two not very successful seasons, in January 2009, Rabinovich sold it to the then mayor of Kyiv Leonid Chernovetsky.

In the winter of 2012, he became the owner of the News One and Jewish News TV channels, but 2 years later News One was sold to a deputy from the “Opposition Bloc” Evgeniy Muraev.

In July 2013, he launched the News Network information and entertainment channel and is the head of the supervisory board of News Network LLC.

Political activity

On March 28, 2014, he was registered as a candidate in the presidential elections in Ukraine as a self-nominated candidate. In the presidential elections he received 2.2% (406,301) of the votes.

In the fall of 2014, on the list of the Opposition Bloc party, he entered the Verkhovna Rada and headed the Subcommittee on Human Rights.

In August 2015, he decided to run for the post of mayor of Odessa, but never registered as a candidate.

In May 2016, he left the bloc and, together with Yevgeny Muraev, created the “For Life” party, which in 2017 initiated rallies against the current government.

Social activity

Since May 1998 - Chairman of the All-Ukrainian Jewish Congress (WJC).

In 1999-2008 he was the head of the All-Ukrainian Union of Jewish Public Organizations “United Jewish Community of Ukraine”.

Since 1999, he has headed the interfaith association “Step to Unity.”

In 2008 he became vice-president of the European Council of Jewish Communities (ECJC).

In 2011 he was elected vice-president of the European Jewish Union (EJU).

Since 2012 he has been co-president of the European Jewish Parliament (EJP).

Awards

In 2011 he received the highest award of the international organization “Jerusalem Conference”.

In Ukraine he was awarded the Order of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker, 1st degree (1999), the Order of St. Equal to the Apostles Prince Vladimir, 1st degree (2001), and the Order of Merit, 2nd degree (2009).

Family status

Married. Three children.

Vadim Zinovievich Rabinovich- Ukrainian-Israeli businessman, politician, TV presenter. People's Deputy of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine of the VIII convocation from the party, candidate for President of Ukraine in the 2014 elections, President of the All-Ukrainian Jewish Congress. Party leader.

Place of Birth. Education. Vadim Rabinovich was born on August 4, 1953 in a military family. After leaving the army, my father worked as an engineer at a plant, and then became deputy director of the plant for safety. Mom was a local doctor.

In 1970 he graduated from Kharkov secondary school No. 45 and entered the Kharkov Automobile and Road Institute. Was expelled from the fourth year.

In 1973-1975 he served in the air defense near Kharkov.

Professional activity. Since 1975, he worked as a foreman in the repair and construction department of the Kharkov City Executive Committee.

Since the beginning of 1983, he was in prison for 9 years for theft on an especially large scale. During the investigation, he pretended to be mentally ill and was repeatedly subjected to forensic medical examination.

In 1994, he formed the Media International Group company and from 1997 to 2009 served as president of the CN-Capital News Publishing House.

In 2008, it acquired the News One television channel.

Since 2013, he has been managing the activities of the News Network media group.

Since 1997, President of the All-Ukrainian Jewish Congress.

Since 2001, head of the Forum of Christians and Jews Step towards unity.

From 2007 to 2013, Rabinovich was the president of the Arsenal Kyiv football club.

Since 2011 he has been co-president of the European Jewish Parliament.

Political career. In 2014 he ran for the presidency of Ukraine. On March 25, 2014, he submitted documents to the Central Election Commission to register as a candidate for the presidency of Ukraine as a self-nominated candidate. Results obtained in the elections: 2.25% (406,301) voted for candidate Vadim Rabinovich.

Leader of the political party All-Ukrainian Association CENTER.

In the early parliamentary elections of 2014, he was elected to the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine at No. 4 on the list of the Opposition Bloc party. Secretary and head of the subcommittee on human rights of the Verkhovna Rada Committee on human rights, national minorities and interethnic relations.

In August 2015, he decided to run for the post of mayor of Odessa, but never registered as a candidate.

In July 2016, together with he presented the For Life party, created on the basis of the Center party.

It has always been famous for the fact that in its circle there is a place for some people who can truly be called odious. Such people have a certain charisma and are quite sharp-tongued. One part of the country's population loves them, the other hates them. Today, a striking example of such a politician in Ukraine is deputy Vadim Rabinovich.

Birth and education

The future Ukrainian entrepreneur and politician was born in Kharkov on August 4, 1953. Vadim Rabinovich studied at the Kharkov Automobile and Road Institute, but was expelled due to immoral behavior. It goes without saying that one could not get away with such an unplanned graduation. The consequence of the expulsion was conscription into the army, where the guy with Jewish roots spent, as expected, two years.

Beginning of your career

Having retired to the reserve, Vadim Rabinovich worked for five years as a foreman in the repair and construction department. But even here he managed to distinguish himself, since a charge of embezzlement of funds on an especially large scale was brought against him. In 1980, Vadim Rabinovich was arrested. After nine months, he was released (according to rumors, the then Prosecutor General of the USSR Roman Rudenko personally contributed to this).

Imprisonment

At the end of 1980, Vadim Zinovievich was engaged in the production of calendars and various crystal doors. His vigorous activity did not go unnoticed by law enforcement agencies, and a second arrest followed in 1982. As Rabinovich himself later admitted, he managed to successfully feign mental insanity for more than a year. But this still did not bring him any dividends, since in February 1984 the Kharkov court sentenced him to 14 years in prison with confiscation of property, as well as a subsequent ban on engaging in professional activities for five years. He was released in 1990 (according to other sources - in 1991).

Active business

Literally a few days after returning to freedom, Vadim Rabinovich creates the Pinta company. At the beginning of 1992, he began to carry out metal export activities, and in the fall of 1993 he became the head of the representative office of the Austrian company Nordex, which supplied large volumes of Russian oil to Ukraine.

In 1995, together with Boris Fuksman, he became the founder of the 1+1 TV channel.

In 1996, already an experienced businessman, he created the RICO company in Geneva, which was later renamed RC-Group.

In 2008, he bought the News One television channel.

Gun scandal

Vadim Rabinovich, whose biography is full of both ups and downs, has earned a reputation for himself since the mid-90s as a businessman who was involved in the smuggling of Soviet weapons into various zones of armed conflicts outside the CIS. Largely because of this, in June 1999 he was banned from entering Ukraine for a period of 5 years. But already on September 29 of the same year, Rabinovich was summoned for a conversation with the leadership of the SBU, as a result of which he was still allowed to stay on the territory of the Ukrainian state.

In January 2002, the fairly respected German publication Der Spiegel reported the delivery of T-55 and T-62 series tanks to Taliban militants. According to the weekly, behind this deal was an Israeli businessman (Rabinovich, in addition to the Ukrainian one, also has one, who acted with the active support of Pakistani intelligence.

Social work

Rabinovich Vadim Zinovievich (his biography is a real example of resourcefulness), since 1997 and to this day has headed the All-Ukrainian Jewish Congress. While in this post, he repeatedly publicly stated that world Jewish organizations should provide assistance not only to Jews, but also to Ukraine as a whole.

In December 1999, the businessman was awarded an award from the hands of the then Metropolitan Vladimir in the form of the Order of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker.

If we list all the awards of this active figure, then among them are:

Order of Merit (second and third degree);

Order of the Foreign Intelligence Service;

- “Cross of Valor”;

- “For services to the Armed Forces of Ukraine.”

Political ambitions

In 2014, elections for the President of Ukraine were held, in which Vadim Rabinovich took part. The biography of this candidate is far from clean, so there could be no talk of any victory. Ultimately, only about 2.5% of voters voted for him. Although this indicator was far from the worst. For example, Oleg Tyagnibok scored half as much. At the same time, in the Odessa, Nikolaev and Zaporozhye regions, Rabinovich received 5% of the votes, which is generally quite significant, realizing the lack of experience of Vadim Zinovievich’s participation in such “tournaments”.

But this fiasco did not slow down the politician’s momentum, and in the 2014 parliamentary elections he gained the required percentage of votes to enter the Verkhovna Rada and became a people’s deputy of the eighth convocation.

Like every previous race for the people's vote, the "competition" between candidates in 2015 was not fair. Thus, a striking example is the fact that it was Rabinovich Vadim Zinovievich, whose biography attracts public attention, who was not invited to a television debate in the studio of the 1+1 channel, now owned by an influential oligarch. As it turned out, the management of this media outlet was ready communicate with any representative of the opposition bloc, only if it is not Vadim Rabinovich, whose speeches are not to the liking of those in power because of his sharp tongue.

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Biography

Born on August 4, 1953 in Kharkov, in a military family. At that time, the Rabinovichs had a large family - four children (Vadim has a brother and two sisters). After leaving the army, my father worked as an engineer at a plant, and then became deputy director of the plant for safety. Mom was a local doctor.

“I remember, my mother’s salary is 90 rubles, my father’s is 120. And I really wanted to have a bicycle. Well, and jeans too - like the fashionable guys. Every time you want something and strive for it to appear in you. And now I want ... To continue to want something,” Vadim Rabinovich said in an interview.

In 1970 he entered the Kharkov Automobile and Highway Institute, but in his fourth year he was expelled from the institute for “immoral behavior.” According to Rabinovich himself, the reason was the creation of a crossword puzzle with political overtones during lectures: “A condom is a weapon of mass destruction for the People’s Republic of China,” - for this a young guy, the captain of the institute’s KVN team, was also expelled from the Komsomol, and then taken into the army.

As it turned out, Vadim Rabinovich was “turned in” by his college comrade and close friend. This is how Vadim Zinovievich commented on the act of his “friend”: “You know, I’ve already experienced this. And if I met him on the street, I would say hello and maybe even go to lunch with him. Of course, I won’t be friends and trust him anymore, but why not eat together? This is life, it’s not all black! If you look closely at yourself, you’ll certainly find out that you didn’t always do everything right either. Or maybe his evil resonated even worse for him.”

After demobilization, Rabinovich worked in Kharkov as a construction management foreman. It was at this time, in January 1980, that he was first arrested for the theft of government property - three rolls of wallpaper. After 9 months of serving in the bullpen, Vadim was released for lack of evidence of a crime.

At the end of the period of “stagnation”, Vadim tried to start a personal business (very unsafe at that time). Rabinovich set up a real underground factory in Kharkov, which was engaged in the manufacture of wooden doors, which at that time was in great short supply. Therefore, the profit was considerable. A Soviet court sentenced Rabinovich in 1982 under Article 86 to 14 years in prison for theft of socialist property on an especially large scale. Since Rabinovich did not admit his guilt at trial, he was placed in a Dnepropetrovsk psychiatric hospital for a year.

He served 8 years and in 1990 was released from prison in accordance with the Decree of M. Gorbachev for lack of evidence of a crime. While Vadim Rabinovich was in prison, the entire Jewish community in Israel and the Western world spoke out in his defense. This gave the figure of Rabinovich additional significance. Indeed, in the civilized world they did not understand why a person was sent to prison for the desire to honestly conduct his business.

After leaving prison, Vadim Zinovievich begins to build his business empire, starting from sales of metallurgy and ending with the acquisition of the R.C. Group concern. At the same time, Rabinovich was one of the co-founders of the 1+1 television project, which for a short time became one of the most popular channels on Ukrainian television.

In addition, Vadim Rabinovich initiated the founding of Solomon University in Kyiv. Diplomas from this university are recognized in the USA. Vadim Rabinovich himself became an honorary Doctor of Philosophy from Solomon University.

Based on the results of 1997, Vadim Rabinovich received a diploma as a laureate of the national Ukrainian program Person of the Year in the Businessman of the Year category.

In July 1998, the New York Times published a list of recipients of the Award for Special Merit in the Development of Jewish Life, an initiative of the religious and educational foundation Esh HaTorah. Among such famous award winners as former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, former US Representative to the UN John Kirkpatrick, ex-Governor of New Jersey Christine Whitman, ex-Senator Joseph Biden, the name of Vadim Rabinovich is also listed.

Since November 2014, people's deputy of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine of the VIII convocation.

Family and connections

Private bussiness

A completely respectable figure, philanthropist and president of the All-Ukrainian Jewish Congress, holder of the Golden Order of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker “For the increase of good on Earth.” Officially, Rabinovich's interests extend primarily to the media business - he owns a number of Ukrainian newspapers, publishing houses, and radio channels. He became widely known outside Ukraine two years ago, when rumors spread about his plans to buy NTV, which had actually been lost by Gusinsky by that time, but had not yet fallen completely under the control of Gazprom. However, within Ukraine, Rabinovich has long been known as the “local Berezovsky.” Business and political interests closely connected him with a number of influential Ukrainian politicians, primarily with the right hand of President Kuchma, major entrepreneur Alexander Volkov

Arrest

By his own admission, while under arrest, he successfully feigned insanity for more than a year. On February 10, 1984, the Kharkov Regional Court sentenced him to 14 years of imprisonment in a strict regime forced labor camp with confiscation of property and a ban on engaging in professional activities for 5 years. He served his sentence near Kharkov. According to some media reports, during Rabinovich’s stay in the colony, the entire Jewish community of the Western world spoke out in his defense. However, in the detailed biography of Rabinovich, "Oligarch", written by the German author Jurgen Rott, this fact is not mentioned. Information was also spread that while in prison, Rabinovich was recruited by the KGB. According to Rabinovich himself, he only feigned informing, after which KGB representatives gave him to sign a document “On termination of cooperation” (according to former dissidents, documents of this type never existed).

According to Rott’s book, Rabinovich was released from prison on July 20, 1991 (According to other sources, he was released a year earlier; in the book “Oligarch” there are also discrepancies that allow his release from prison to be attributed to 1990)

Political Views

Rabinovich never ran for office in Ukraine. In the 1998 elections, he supported a number of parties (in particular the Greens, providing advertising discounts for “1 +1”), as well as the “progressive socialists”, the People’s Movement.

In the 2002 elections, he supported the Rainbow bloc, which was deregistered by the Central Election Commission. The editor-in-chief of Stolichnye Novosti, Vladimir Katsman, was among the top five of the block.

The nature of the publications in SN suggests that Rabinovich also supported the Unity bloc and Boyko’s People’s Movement.

In the 1999 elections, he, according to his own statement, refused material support to Alexander Moroz, which allegedly explains the harsh statements of the socialist leader against him. Moroz himself denied allegations of such treatment. In public interviews, Rabinovich consistently speaks positively about Leonid Kuchma.

Support from the Vitrenko Bloc was also very likely. Considering the relationship with Gorbulin, Rabinovich should be interested in the failure of the Democratic Party-Democratic Union bloc and the Yushchenko bloc.

Thanks to close contacts with Chervonenko, Rabinovich should have mutual understanding with Our Ukraine, but in the second half of 2001 he spoke negatively about Yushchenko’s intentions to run in elections together with the UPR, NRU and KUN.

Rabinovich greatly valued his alliance with the Kyiv mayor. Therefore, when a version appeared that Rabinovich was behind the cassette scandal-2 (the publication of a conversation between Alexander Omelchenko and Viktor Yushchenko), in order to disavow this version, he even published his recording of a dictaphone conversation with Rukh’s former press secretary Dmitry Ponomarchuk.

Gun scandal

In January 2002, the German weekly Der Spiegel reported a large supply of T-55 and T-62 tanks to the Taliban. The supplier was allegedly an Israeli businessman, a native of Ukraine, Vadim Rabinovich, who acted with the support of Pakistani intelligence, and the tanks, totaling 150-200 vehicles, were delivered to Kabul by Bout’s planes via Sharjah. Rabinovich denied this information in an interview with Ukrainskaya Pravda. According to him, the sins of others are always attributed to him, and in Ukraine there are political forces seeking to turn him into a scapegoat. “If something is lost in Ukraine, stolen or disappeared, Rabinovich is to blame. If there is no water in Ukraine, it is Rabinovich’s doing.”

Social activity

In 1997, Rabinovich became president of the All-Ukrainian Jewish Congress (WJC), for the creation of which he donated $1 million and heads the time. By this time, Rabinovich already had a passport as an Israeli citizen and created the Ukraine-Israel Chamber of Commerce and Industry. As the head of the WJC, Rabinovich has repeatedly stated that for interethnic harmony in Ukraine, international Jewish organizations should not limit themselves to helping only Jews, but help Ukraine as a state.

On April 5, 1999, at the founding congress of the United Jewish Community of Ukraine (UJCU), he was elected its chairman (he still holds this position). At the same time, on April 14, 1999, another association was created - the Jewish Confederation of Ukraine (JCU), co-chaired by People's Deputy of Ukraine Efim Zvyagilsky, President of VABank Sergei Maksimov and President of the Orlan concern, then Advisor to the President of Ukraine Evgeniy Chervonenko. It was also reported that Viktor Pinchuk donated money to create the confederation. In April 1999, Rabinovich said that an alternative association was being created under religious slogans. But, as a member of the confederation, Chief Rabbi of Kyiv Yakov Dov Bleich, stated at the same time, “Rabinovich was offered to join the JKU, but they could not guarantee that he would be elected president of the JKU.” At the same time, according to the chief rabbi, “the doors are always open” to the JCU for the head of the UJCU

Football

In the summer of 2007, Vadim Rabinovich acquired the Arsenal football club (Kyiv) from the Kyiv City State Administration. After two not very successful seasons, in January 2009, Rabinovich sold the club to the mayor of Kyiv Leonid Chernovetsky.

The businessman said that he had regained control of the club by buying back the shares he sold to another investor in January. He called his actions consistent, explaining that he was selling the club’s shares in order to run for president of the Premier League, and in case of non-election, he retained the right to buy them back, which he took advantage of

Femen

According to the famous Kyiv journalist Oksana Skoda, the wallet of the Ukrainian-Israeli oligarch Vadim Rabinovich looms behind the bare breasts of FEMEN. I didn’t have time to develop this idea in detail on the show, but I will quote her article. Oksana Skoda claims that there is “a stable connection between young Kyiv FEMEN-ok and one of the most non-public rich people in Ukraine named Vadim Zinovievich Rabinovich. This “open secret” was revealed to active (and, therefore, the most informed) bloggers. According to users of some LiveJournals, a connection with Vadim Rabinovich exists directly from the creator, and now the main ideologist and caretaker of FEMEN, Anna Gutsol. Her father, Colonel General Mikhail Gutsol, began his career with Rabinovich in the PR service.

Hutsol Sr. is a deputy of the Verkhovna Rada of the 3rd convocation. He was repeatedly prosecuted, most recently in the summer of 2009 as the culprit of an accident in Kyiv. Mikhail Gutsol defended the rights of gays and lesbians in the Rainbow party, which at that time was financed by the oligarch Rabinovich. True, Hutsol did not limit himself to defending LGBT rights: the author of these lines “crossed paths” with him in 2006, when “Rainbow” picketed the building of the Ministry of Agriculture on Khreshchatyk for several weeks in a row. What exactly they wanted from ex-agricultural minister A. Baranivsky back then is not preserved in the annals of history. But what remained in my memory was a chaotic tent city of several “objects” and large drums, which the picketers beat almost around the clock, thus entertaining themselves and passers-by, along the way presenting new food for research to psychiatrists

Business dossier

A few days after his liberation, Rabinovich created the Pinta company with the former head of his camp detachment, Andrei Aleshin. At the end of 1991 - beginning of 1992, after unsuccessful attempts to trade Italian furniture and British cosmetics on the domestic market, he switched to export operations in metal trading. Some media outlets disseminated information that during these same years, Rabinovich was involved in the emergence of non-state television in Kharkov and in the conduct of the presidential election campaign of Vyacheslav Chornovil.

Since the fall of 1993, Rabinovich became the Ukrainian representative of the Austrian company Nordex, which, with the assistance of the President of Ukraine Leonid Kravchuk, became the exclusive operator for the supply of Russian oil to Ukraine and payments for it in Ukrainian goods. The reputation of the president of NORDEX, a native of the USSR, Grigory Luchansky, as the head of the “Russian mafia” had a negative impact on the reputation of Rabinovich himself.

In 1994 (according to other sources - 1995), Rabinovich was denied entry into the United States on the grounds that he was a Ukrainian representative of NORDEX. According to Rabinovich himself, the ban has already been lifted - and it happens in the USA. Rabinovich freely visits most European countries, in particular Germany, and in Israel he is received by state leaders. In September 2001, Rabinovich, while in Moscow, donated 300 million rubles for the restoration of the synagogue on Bolshaya Bronnaya.

In the summer of 1995, he founded the company Ostex AG in Geneva. At first, half of its shares belonged to NORDEX, but in March 1996 Rabinovich bought this half for $500,000, finally breaking with NORDEX.

In 1996, Rabinovich founded the company RICO (Rabinovich and Company) in Geneva, which was soon renamed RC-Group (or RC-Capital-Group). According to Rabinovich, the reason for the renaming was that the original name of the company repeated the abbreviation of the American Law on persons under the influence of racketeers and corrupt organizations,” which was perceived by the CIA as a mockery of the Russian mafia against the American police.

Based on the results of 1997, Vadim Rabinovich received a diploma as a laureate of the national Ukrainian program “Person of the Year” in the nomination “Businessman of the Year”.

On April 24, 1999, the Associated Press (with reference to Ukrainian media) estimated Rabinovich's fortune at $1 billion.

On June 24, 1999, the Security Service of Ukraine banned Rabinovich from entering the country for a period of 5 years. According to the SBU press center, the decision was made in connection with information received about the involvement of Israeli citizen Rabinovich “in activities causing significant losses to the Ukrainian economy, and in the interests of ensuring the security of the country.” The message also stated that on December 17, 1998, the SBU banned entry to Ukraine for the same period of time to Israeli citizen Leonid Wulf (who maintained close ties with Rabinovich), who is known in the criminal world as the leader of one of the professional criminal groups and is suspected of committing a number of high-profile murders and attempts in Odessa, Kiev, and the Dnepropetrovsk region.

As co-chairman of the Jewish Confederation of Ukraine Yevgeny Chervonenko stated on June 24, 1999, this decision was made in the interests of national security, since during the visit of the JCU delegation to the United States, as well as at the meeting of the President of Ukraine with the President of the World Jewish Congress, the question of Rabinovich’s activities was constantly raised. Rabinovich himself called the reason for the ban on his entry into Ukraine “irreconcilable differences” with the Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council Vladimir Gorbulin. (The then head of the SBU Leonid Derkach and even more so his son - People's Deputy of Ukraine Andrey Derkach - had a reputation as people close to Rabinovich). According to Rabinovich, such harsh measures were provoked by the publication in Ukraine of materials about fraud with the so-called “Jewish money”, which were distributed by the EKU, an organization that Rabinovich called controlled by Gorbulin. Another motive for the actions of the NSDC Secretary, he called a critical article in the Financial Times newspaper about the owners "Studios 1+1". Later, information appeared in the media that the SBU’s decision was made in connection with the leak through Rabinovich of information about Ukraine’s sale of weapons to Yugoslavia, despite the international embargo. There is also a version that the reason for the ban on entry into Ukraine was Rabinovich’s plans to provide material support to Alexander Tkachenko in the 1999 presidential elections.

Gorbulin himself rejected the accusations against him, saying: “I can hardly imagine a situation where the Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council could have a personal conflict with a foreign citizen.” And President of Ukraine Leonid Kuchma said at a press conference on October 1, 1999 that he did not know “what losses Rabinovich caused to Ukraine.” He also noted that Rabinovich was deprived of the right to enter Ukraine “for other reasons,” adding that it was not the president made this decision, and recommended that journalists contact the press service of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Security Service of Ukraine about this.

But two months later, Rabinovich was again in Ukraine. On July 29, 1999, the SBU press center officially confirmed the information that Rabinovich had been sent an invitation to visit Ukraine for a conversation with representatives of the Security Service. On September 27, I had a conversation with the leadership of the SBU. As Deputy Chairman of the Security Service Yuri Zemlyansky stated on September 29, Rabinovich “is allowed to remain in Ukraine for now. He gave answers to all the questions that we put to him, but the SBU needs additional time to dot the i’s.” Rabinovich refrained from further accusing specific politicians of blocking his entry into Ukraine, saying only that the special services had obtained false documents, on the basis of which he “would have blocked his own entry.”

Political dossier

In May 2014, the presidential candidate of Ukraine, the president of the All-Ukrainian Jewish Congress, Vadim Rabinovich, was unanimously elected leader of the political party "All-Ukrainian Association "Center". Rabinovich himself announced this on his Facebook.

The election took place in Kyiv at the 12th Party Congress, where 450 delegates from 23 regions of Ukraine were present.

Media assets

In 1995, according to his own statement, Rabinovich became one of the founders of the television company “Studio 1+1”, which at that time received a license to broadcast on the second national channel of Ukrainian television. At the same time, representatives of the television company today claim that Rabinovich was never part of the founders, but only owned the Priority company, which owned exclusive rights to advertising on 1+1. In early 1997, according to Rabinovich’s interview with Ukraine Criminal, he sold 50% of the shares of 1+1 that belonged to him to Ronald Lauder for an amount greater than $10 million, but less than $100 million.

1998 Rabinovich created the publishing house “CN - Capital News”, which owns a number of publications, in particular the weekly “Capital News”. In October of the same year, there was a scandalous public break with Studio 1+1. According to Rabinovich, the reason was his dissatisfaction with the financial abuses of the company's leaders Boris Fuksman and Alexander Rodnyansky, who in response allegedly informed Western embassies about his criminal activities. According to the opposite version On the other hand, Fuchsman and Rodnyansky wanted to get rid of the “mafia influence” of Rabinovich. According to the book "Oligarch", Rabinovich's 25% share in the company's equity capital was sold to Fuchsman for $2.5 million.

2000 creates the company Media International Group (MIG), which included the publishing house "CN-Capital News", the newspaper "MIGnovosty" in Ukraine and "MIGnews" in Israel, the weekly magazine "Business Week". Currently, the MIG holding includes the oldest daily newspaper in the USA “New Russian Word” (since 2003) and the radio station “Narodnaya Volna”, the political weekly “CN-Capital News”, the daily newspaper “Stolicchka”, the business weekly “DN-Business Week” - in Ukraine, “Moscow News” (since 2005) - in Russia, as well as the Israeli newspaper “MIG”. The holding owns several radio and television companies and several Internet sites: Mignews.com, Mignews.com.ua, Migsport.com, NRS.com, DN.kiev.ua, CN.com.ua, a number of print media in Ukraine and Israel . Jurgen Rott in Oligarch, in the words of Rabinovich himself, reports that in mid-2000 RC-Group in Ukraine included an advertising agency, a publishing house, an investment and consulting firm, a beverage production company, an insurance company, a discount card company, and a trading company cosmetics and a number of others.

According to the cited data of the Fraza newspaper, for all the years of the existence of the publishing house in 2006, CN-Capital News losses amounted to 3,704,900 UAH, the publishing house did not pay a penny in income taxes. Rabinovich has repeatedly stated that he has no other businesses in Ukraine except publishing.

Infotainment channel News Network

The President of the All-Ukrainian Jewish Congress, businessman Vadim Rabinovich, owner of the News One and Jewish News One (JN1) TV channels, as well as the online publication Mignews, is launching a satellite information and entertainment channel News Network.

According to the National Council on Television and Radio Broadcasting, on July 17, 2013, it issued News Network LLC (Kyiv) a license for satellite broadcasting for a period of 10 years.

Andrey Degtyarev, who heads News One, became the director of News Network, and the editorial board included Rabinovich, Degtyarev, Vladimir Orlov and News One general producer Vladimir Katsman.

The TV channel intends to open news offices in cities with a population of over a million.

The program concept of “News Network” provides for a share of self-produced programs of 22 hours 47 minutes. per day, of which 21 hours 30 minutes. – informational, analytical and journalistic programs, 1 hour – entertainment and music programs. The telecommunications operator is SES Sirius Ukraine LLC (Kyiv), the satellite repeater operator is the Swedish SES ASTRA AB.

Hobbies

Vadim Zinovievich is fond of football, thanks to which he quit smoking and started a healthy lifestyle. So the hobby grew into a business; from 2007 to 2013, Rabinovich was the president of the Arsenal Kyiv football club.