KYIV. March 5 (Interfax) - An explosion in Kyiv near the office of prominent Ukrainian businessman Vadim Rabinovich, who is also co-chairman of the European Jewish Parliament and president of the Pan-Ukrainian Jewish Congress, did not cause fatalities or injurieis, but Rabinovich's Lexus was damaged, Kyiv police have reported.
Reports said earlier that the explosion occurred at 3L36 p.m.. Ex-editor of the newspaper Stolichniye Novosti Vladimir Katsman said it was an attempt on Rabinovich's life and that the bomb had been thrown at the car as Rabinovich was leaving the courtyard.
Rabinovich said on February 18 that officials have been trying to take away his ownership rights to the Jewish New One television channel and that he filed a complaint with the Prosecutor General's Office. The JN1 is an independent private channel, established by two Ukrainian businessmen Igor Kolomoisky and Rabinovich, both of them philanthropists well known in the international Jewish community.