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Volume 2, Number 32
Friday, August 16, 2002

BIGOTRY MONITOR
A Weekly Human Rights Newsletter on Antisemitism, Xenophobia, and
Religious Persecution in the Former Communist World and Western Europe

EDITOR: CHARLES FENYVESI
(News and Editorial Policy within the sole discretion of the editor)

Published by UCSJ: Union of Councils for Jews in the Former Soviet Union
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WHERE SKINHEADS AND THEIR RACISM COME FROM

MURDER TRIAL OF VOLGOGRAD SKINHEADS BEGINS

THWARTED  SYNAGOGUE BOMBER IS PART OF ISLAMIC GROUP, FSB SAYS

IN IVANOVO, JEWS AND MUSLIMS FACE COMMON HOSTILITY

CHINESE MAY BECOME RUSSIA'S SECOND-LARGEST ETHNIC GROUP

VIETNAMESE TRADERS PROTEST CONFISCATION OF THEIR GOODS

U.S.-UZBEK LINK: PACT WITH THE DEVIL OR A TOOL TO PROMOTE DEMOCRACY?

PRAGUE POLICE ROUNDS UP ILLEGAL ALIENS

COALITION CALLS FOR REJECTION OF NEW BELARUS RELIGION LAW

HARE KRISHNAS OF BELARUS CHALLENGE STATE REFUSAL OF REGISTRATION

SPAIN SETS UP ELECTRONIC SENSORS TO BLOCK IMMIGRANTS

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NEW WORLD ORDER, OLD ANXIETIES
No Final Answers to Three Controversies

1. Ban on Ideas. On August 8, a French court ordered the already-banned
far-right group Radical Unity to shut down its Internet web site,
according to Reuters...

2. The Enduring Power of Suspicion. Last month, Prosecutor General
Vladimir Ustinov sought to close the books on the Kursk nuclear
submarine disaster that killed the entire 118-man crew in August 2000...

3. The U.S.-Europe Drift. "Whether in regard to welfare, crime,
regulation, education or foreign policy, there are constant differences
separating America from everyone else," Francis Fukuyama, professor
international political economy at Johns Hopkins University in
Washington, wrote in an article in "The International Herald Tribune" on
August 9...

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