Vyacheslav Kantor is a smart oligarch. Instead of buying yachts and sports clubs, he focused on becoming a prominent public figure among European Jews. This clever decision made him particularly valuable to Vladimir Putin.

To support and update his biography and the articles about his puppet non-governmental organizations, Kantor hired the best of the best: a journalist and the 11-time Russian Wikipedia award winner Nikolay Eikhvald.

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