Rothschild & Co. Has Office in Russia, Contrary to Conspiracy Claim on Social Media

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Rothschild & Co. has an office in Moscow and has been operating in Russia since the mid-1990s. Yet posts on social media falsely claim that Russia has barred the Rothschild banking family from doing business in the country. The claim is an adaptation of an old conspiracy theory about the family.

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A longstanding antisemitic conspiracy theory about the Rothschilds, a European banking family prominent since the 19th century, has been adapted to support the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

In a that’s been viewed on Facebook more than 200,000 times and shared , a man seated in his car claims to explain why the U.S. is “trying to push a war with Ukraine against Russia.”