A NY Times reader's follow-up to that paper's piece on Dasha Zhukova (Peter Roussak/NY Times):
Would The Times have published a similarly flattering article a week after Hitler’s invasion of Czechoslovakia describing how a senior Nazi official’s’ daughter, backed by money stolen from the state, was making waves in the art world, based apparently more on her looks and money than on knowledge of art?
And I would love to know what besides “perseverance” enabled this well-connected oligarch’s daughter to “take over” the lease from the Federation of Jewish Communities in Russia, and how the federation feels about the takeover.
Well, in possible relation to the second question, one of the Moscow synagogues contains a plaque commemorating a large donation by Roman Abramovich.

