*The Kingdom of Khazar was geographically located in what is now Belarus, on the Western tip of Russia. It used to be part of the Soviet Union, and became Belarus after the Soviet Union collapsed.
**Side Note - I know someone from a prominent NYC Zionist family whose grandparents came from Minsk, capital of Belarus.
*Russian Jews -immigrate to US -> Israel First Zionists. Many Ashkenazi Jews have this background, at least in NYC. Also Ukrainian, and Polish Jews.