​At the same time as the MSRS, another organisation was established in Moscow in 2002, aimed not at the entire émigré community but only at one section of it – the World Congress of Russian-Speaking Jewry (WCRSJ).  Apparently, the initial intention was to give it a purely religious character, and a council of rabbis was even elected, but this idea subsequently fizzled out. 
Boris Spiegel, a member of the Federation Council of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation representing the Penza region, had been president of the WCRJ since 2007. Spiegel’s links to the security services are quite evident, given that he graduated from the Academy of Foreign Trade in 2002. 
Dmitry Feldman, who headed the German branch of the WCRJ, was a member of the WCRJ Presidium from Germany. The branch is registered in Germany under the name ‘Weltkongress russischsprachiger Juden e.V.’. In addition to Berlin, the WCRJ had representative offices in Moscow and New York. 
In 2009, the Congress organised a gathering in Berlin of Russian agents of influence from all over the world – 400 people, including friendly politicians from various countries. 
For this purpose, the “Steigenberger” hotel in the very centre of Berlin was hired for three days. To Germany’s credit, it must be said that there were no guests of honour from the German side. The most senior of those invited was the then Speaker of the Knesset, Ze’ev Elkin. 
Officially, the conference was titled ‘Lessons of the Second World War and the Holocaust’, but its main aim was the public adoption of five resolutions supporting Putin’s policies (at the time, these concerned Ukraine and Georgia). One can imagine the scale of funding required for such conferences. 
In 2010, the VKRE suddenly disappeared; or rather, it was transformed into a completely different organisation called the International Human Rights Movement ‘World Without Nazism’ (MBN), which was registered in 2011 in Strasbourg, France.  It was founded in Kyiv in 2010. As stated on the MBN website, ‘On 22 June, the 69th anniversary of the start of Hitler’s aggression, the founding conference of the International Human Rights Movement “World Without Nazism” took place in Kyiv, attended by 360 delegates from 136 organisations across 28 countries, including Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, Moldova, Finland, Poland, the Baltic states, Israel, Germany, Italy, the USA, and others’”.  
The chairman remains the same – Boris Spiegel. Now the main task of this organisation is pro-Russian propaganda in Eastern Europe, the CIS countries and the Baltic states. This primarily involves promoting Stalinist and Soviet-patriotic versions of the history of the Second World War under the guise of the fight against Nazism.  The pseudo-religious organisation has transformed into a pseudo-human rights organisation. This was likely linked to a reallocation of resources and an intensification of propaganda pressure on the former Soviet republics – primarily Ukraine and the Baltic states. 
As Spiegel himself said in an interview with *Komsomolskaya Pravda* in 2018: ‘The international human rights movement “World Without Nazism” is a non-governmental organisation that brings together 156 national anti-fascist organisations from 30 countries and shapes public opinion in favour of the anti-Nazi movement in various countries around the world.’  There can be no doubt that all 156 of these ‘national anti-fascist organisations’ (if they even exist) are Moscow-based centres of influence.  The members of the MBN’s governing bodies – the presidium and the council – are undoubtedly Moscow agents of influence from various countries, and this is precisely why their names are of particular interest, despite the fact that ‘World Without Nazism’ itself has shown no signs of life since around 2015. 
In 2021, the organisation’s head, Boris Spiegel, was arrested in Moscow on charges of offering a bribe of around $400,000 to the governor of the Penza Region. In January 2024, at the Izmailovsky Court in Moscow, Spiegel was sentenced to 11 years’ imprisonment in a maximum-security prison and fined 450 million roubles. He was released on health grounds in November 2024.