MINELRES: Bigotry Monitor: Volume 2, Number 46 (content)
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Volume 2, Number 46
Friday, November 22, 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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RACIST INCIDENTS SPREAD ACROSS RUSSIA. In the wake of the Moscow hostage
crisis, incidents of racist violence and discrimination are reported
with alarming regularity throughout Russia...
PRO-MOSCOW CHECHEN LEADERS URGE PUTIN TO STOP ARMY MISCONDUCT
FIVE SENTENCED TO JAIL FOR 2001 MOSCOW RIOT
INDEFINITE POSTPONEMENT FOR MURDER TRIAL
U.S. OFFICIALS STUDY PLIGHT OF MESKHETIAN TURKS
FSB QUESTIONS EASTERN-RITE CATHOLIC PRIEST ON CHURCH ACTIVITIES
FOREIGN STUDENTS ATTACKED IN UKRAINE
BELARUSSIAN LAWMAKERS PROTEST RAZING OF JEWISH LANDMARKS
'DER SPIEGEL' REVEALS GERMAN FAR-RIGHT SUPPORT FOR HIZB UT-TAHRIR
FRENCH COURT DROPS SUIT TO BAN ORIANA FALLACI'S BOOK ON ISLAM
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EDUCATION MINISTRY TO INTRODUCE RUSSIAN ORTHODOXY AS A SCHOOL SUBJECT
Despite Protests from Many Quarters, the Orthodox Church Is Likely to
Get Its Way
Now that President Vladimir Putin has got religion, Russian children may
soon be studying Orthodox culture in school. Russia's Ministry of
Education is proposing as a school subject over the entire eleven years
"The Story of the Orthodox Religion" and "Orthodox Literature and the
Moral Culture of Orthodoxy," TVS reported on November 19. The ministry
envisages the subject as optional, and the curriculum would be up to
local authorities and school administrations. Many teachers have already
expressed reservations about the wisdom of introducing this subject...
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