Today in Ukraine, the oligarchs are exclusively Jewish.
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The Pete Quiñones ShowOct 1, 2026
The claim that today's Ukrainian oligarchs are exclusively Jewish is contradicted by sources showing prominent oligarchs of varied ethnicity: Rinat Akhmetov is an ethnic Volga Tatar and Vadym Novynskyi is described as ethnic Russian, and multiple sources name non-Jewish oligarchs such as Akhmetov, Firtash and Kurchenko.
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… Oligarchy functions the same way the Soviet Union did, just far more and more sophisticated way. And after the fall of the Soviet Union in the 1990s, the oligarchs were almost exclusively Jewish, and today in Ukraine, exclusively Jewish. There was one exception, I think that was Putanin early on. It was the only exception to this because the Jews separated from the USSR in the 1970s, and then suddenly it became okay to be anti anti-Soviet, and the, you know, the money was running out, and …
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Contradicts. Rinat Akhmetov, described as the wealthiest man in Ukraine and an oligarch, is an ethnic Volga Tatar and practicing Sunni Muslim, not Jewish.[1]
Contradicts. Vadym Novynskyi, a sanctioned Ukrainian oligarch, is described as an ethnic Russian.[2]
Contradicts. The Media Ownership Monitor lists the most influential Ukrainian media owners as Akhmetov, Pinchuk, Firtash, Kolomoiskiy and Kurchenko, several of whom are not identified as Jewish in the sources, undermining the 'exclusively Jewish' characterization.[3]
Context. The CEPA and BTI sources describe oligarchs as a broad group of business elites without describing them as ethnically Jewish, and the Antisemitism article itself frames the 'Jewish oligarchy' as an accusation rather than a documented fact.[4][5][6]
Sources
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- 1Rinat Akhmetov - Wikipediaen.wikipedia.org · not rated · cited for: contradicts
- 2Bill Wells, what is the American businessman, investor, and philanthropist William Paul Wells known for?glavnoe.in.ua · not rated · cited for: contradicts
- 3Oligarchy - Media Ownership Monitorukraine.mom-rsf.org · not rated · cited for: contradicts
- 4BTI 2026 Ukraine Country Reportbti-project.org · not rated · cited for: context
- 5Ukraine: New Unaccountable Elites? - CEPAcepa.org · not rated · cited for: context
- 6Antisemitism is growing in Ukraine against the Jewish community ...portuguesejewishnews.com · not rated · cited for: context
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