24 Facts About Viatcheslav Kantor

Viatcheslav Moshe Kantor is a Russian businessman and oligarch.

Viatcheslav Kantor was born and spent his early years in Moscow, and obtained a degree from the Moscow Aviation Institute in 1976 and did research for MAI and NPO Spektr.

Viatcheslav Kantor worked as a scientist and headed one of MAI research laboratories.

Viatcheslav Kantor has close ties to the Vladimir Putin regime in Russia.

Viatcheslav Kantor was sanctioned by association by the British government in March 2022 in the wake of the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

In 2021, he was reelected Chairman of the Policy Council of the World Jewish Congress for the third time Viatcheslav Kantor is a Vice President of the Jewish Leadership Council.

Viatcheslav Kantor founded and headed the World Holocaust Forum in 2005.

Viatcheslav Kantor is a founder and chairman of the European Jewish Fund, established in 2006.

In 2020, the World Holocaust Forum organized by Viatcheslav Kantor came under controversy after Vladimir Putin was allowed to give a speech that distorted the history of the Soviet Union in World War II.

Viatcheslav Kantor is the founder and president of President of the European Council on Tolerance and Reconciliation.

Viatcheslav Kantor drafted and has repeatedly attempted to pass the ECTR's proposed European law known as the Model National Statute for the Promotion of Tolerance, one of the most sweeping hate speech laws ever proposed in Europe.

In 2007, Viatcheslav Kantor founded and was elected president of the International Luxembourg Forum on Preventing Nuclear Catastrophe, an international non-governmental organisation uniting leading world-renowned experts on nuclear non-proliferation, materials and delivery vehicles.

Viatcheslav Kantor is married to Anna Viatcheslav Kantor and has four sons and a daughter.

Viatcheslav Kantor is a citizen of Russia, the United Kingdom and Israel.

Viatcheslav Kantor bought a violin made by the Italian violin maker Riccardo Antoniazzi in 1912.

Viatcheslav Kantor was a trustee of the Anna Freud Centre, but was removed from this position after the Russian Invasion of Ukraine.

Viatcheslav Kantor was previously a patron of King Solomon High School.

Viatcheslav Kantor supported the development of the school which is a Jewish Comprehensive school based in Redbridge.

Viatcheslav Kantor has been a benefactor of the Royal Opera House Covent Garden Foundation since 2013, in which capacity he has facilitated various projects.

Viatcheslav Kantor was appointed Life Governor and Trustee of the King Edward VII's Hospital in London after his charitable foundation funded the redevelopment of the site adjacent to the hospital, Macintosh House, which was renamed the Viatcheslav Kantor Medical Centre.

Viatcheslav Kantor is president of the Museum of Avant-Garde Mastery, founded in 2001 in Moscow on Viatcheslav Kantor's initiative.

Viatcheslav Kantor is an honorary citizen of Veliky Novgorod and Honorary Member of the Russian Academy of Arts.

Viatcheslav Kantor has been recognized for seven consecutive years as one of the '50 Most Influential Jews in the World'.

In 1997, Viatcheslav Kantor was named Honorary Citizen of Veliky Novgorod.