On the 24th of March, a presentation ceremony for the Euro-Asian Jewish Congress (EAJC) highest award – the For Merits medal - took place in Pavlodar. The medal was given to professor of philology, compositor, music scholar, and collector Naum Gershevich Shafer.
On the 30th of May, the RAS Oriental Studies Institute began its conference “Jews in Modern Russia: Crisis or Rebirth” (organized by the Department of Israel and Jewish Communities, Department Head – Dr. Tatyana Karasova) with the lecture of the Euro-Asian Jewish Congress (EAJC) Secretary General, Professor Michael Chlenov.
On May 26-27, representatives of the Euro-Asian Jewish Congress (EAJC) led by the head of the EAJC PR Department Roman Spector took part in conducting Eilat Days in Moscow, which have been organized at the initiative of the Moscow Jewish National Cultural Autonomy and the Eilat City Hall.
On the 26th of May, a working meeting took place between the Secretary General of the Euro-Asian Jewish Congress (EAJC), Professor Michael Chlenov, and the personal representative of the current OSCE chairman on combating anti-Semitism, member of the leadership of the American Jewish Committee, Rabbi Andrew Baker.
The President of the Euro-Asian Jewish Congress (EAJC) Alexander Mashkevich sent his greetings to the organizators and participants of the project Limmud that opened in Beer Sheva.
As part of the ''Adult People'' cycle of video discussions, the Polit.ru web portal has interviewed ethnologist and public figure, professor, Maimonides State Classic Jewish Academy Dean of the Faculty of Philology, Deputy Director of the Center for Jewish Studies at the Lomonsov MSU Institute of Asian and African Studies, Euro-Asian Jewish Congress Secretary General Michael Chlenov. The interview was taken by Lyubov Borusyak.
On the 19th of May, the Euro-Asian Jewish Congress General Council Chairman, Executive Vice President of the Congress of National Communities of Ukraine, member of the Ukrainian Helsinki Human Rights Union Josef Zisels gave a lecture titled “On the question of identities: problems of national, religious, and civilizational identity” as part of the Polit.ua public lecture project.
On the 18th of May, the Euro-Asian Jewish Congress (EAJC) General Council Chairman Josef Zisels spoke in Simferopol at the All-Crimean Memorial Meeting, dedicated to the 67th year since the deportation of Crimean Tatars from the peninsula.
The representative delegation of the Euro-Asian Jewish Congress (EAJC), headed by President Alexander Mashkevich, visited Israel to participate in the events timed to the 50th anniversary of EAJC Vice President, Head of the World Congress of Georgian Jews Gabriel Mirilashvili.
