/b/ - Siberia

>>158926
That is actually a good question because most Russians I know are at least slightly antisemitic.

There have to be some kind of oligarchical economic ties that the russian bourgeoisie has in Israel. Which means the answer to your question is going to be pretty much the same as the answer for why any other western country is pro-Israel.

tl;dr why is the ruling class anywhere pro-Israel?

because chabad runs things in russia
https://www.timesofisrael.com/putin-fires-top-official-who-describes-chabad-as-a-supremacist-cult/

https://www.timesofisrael.com/putin-fires-top-official-who-describes-chabad-as-a-supremacist-cult/
>"I would like to draw your attention to the fact that almost two million people from the former Soviet Union and the Russian Federation reside in Israel. It is almost a Russian-speaking country today. And, undoubtedly, we always take this into account in Russia’s contemporary history," the Russian president said, commenting on the current situation in the Middle East.