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COLD OPEN. The document titled Documents on Israeli‑Soviet Relations, 1941‑1953, Part One, was compiled jointly by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the State of Israel and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation. The volume covers the period from May nineteen forty‑one through May nineteen forty‑nine and is notable as the first official joint publication of archival material from both governments, offering direct insight into the early diplomatic exchanges between the two states. The source is archived at The Black Vault, entry available at https://archive.org/download/documents-on-israeli-soviet-relations-1941-1953-part-i-bentsur-eytan-russian-aca/Documents%20On%20Israeli-Soviet%20Relations%201941-1953%20Part%20I%20-%20Bentsur%2C%20Eytan%3B%20Russian%20Academy%20of%20Sciences%2C%20Russiadjvu.txt. PROVENANCE. The material was released to the public through The Black Vault digital archive on the date of upload, listed in the archive entry as the canonical PDF link above. No formal Freedom of Information Act case number is attached, as the collection was made available voluntarily by the Cummings Center for Russian and East European Studies in cooperation with the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Russian Federal Archives. The declassification authority is the joint editorial board comprising officials from both ministries and the Russian Academy of Sciences. THE DOCUMENT. The title page reads: Documents on Israeli‑Soviet Relations, 1941‑1953, Part One: 1941—May 1949. It lists the participating agencies as the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Israel, the State Archives of Israel, the Cummings Center for Russian Studies at Tel Aviv University, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation, the Russian Federal Archives, the Institute of Oriental Studies, and the Russian Academy of Sciences. The editorial board is chaired by Eytan Bentsur, with academic editors Evyatar Friesel, Gabriel Gorodetsky, Yaacov Ro’, Yehoshua Freundlich, Dov Yaroshevski, and Boris L. Kolokolov, chairman, among others. Translators from Hebrew are Ralph Mandel and Joseph Elron; translators from Russian are Richard Kindersley. The publication information states: Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, London and New York. First published in two thousand by Frank Cass Publishers, republished in two thousand nineteen by Routledge, address 2 Park Square, Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon, OX14 4RN, and 52 Vanderbilt Avenue, New York, New York, one zero zero seventeen. Copyright two thousand by the Cummings Center, all rights reserved, with a notice prohibiting reproduction without written permission. The contents list includes a foreword by the Foreign Minister of the State of Israel, a foreword by the Foreign Minister of the Russian Federation, a preface, a glossary of abbreviations, and a list of documents numbered one through two hundred forty‑two for Part One, with Part Two covering documents two hundred forty‑three through four hundred…

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Documents On Israeli Soviet Relations 1941 1953 Part I (russian Academy Of Sciences, Russia)

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COLD OPEN. The document titled Documents on Israeli‑Soviet Relations, 1941‑1953, Part One, was compiled jointly by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the State of Israel and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation.

Date: JUL 18 · 2026
Release: Declassified · U.S. public record (FOIA)
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What was Documents On Israeli Soviet Relations 1941 1953 Part I (russian Academy Of Sciences, Russia) about?: COLD OPEN. The document titled Documents on Israeli‑Soviet Relations, 1941‑1953, Part One, was compiled jointly by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the State of Israel and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation.
Why was this case declassified?: This material entered the public record through the U.S. declassification and Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) process. Storyflo narrates it directly from the public release.

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