What a vindictive little man tarring a whole nation because he was denied the high rabbinite position? Yup, history is all about such things.
What "vindictive little man?" You and others here are very good at changing the subject.
A Rabbi of long standing in the community translates a seminal Jewish text, gets called by Moscow prosecutors to defend it against spurious charges, the Israeli Foreign Ministry spokesman Mark Regev says, ""To take a traditional Jewish text and try to ban it reminds us of the official state-sponsored anti-Semitism that we saw in czarist Russia," and you attribute it to occupational jealousy?
What distortion is this?
The text in question is fundamental to Orthodox Judaism and needs no defense. The Chabad in Russia should be uniting against this attack on Judaism. I hope the Shulchan Aruch is greater than petty squabbling over secular positions.