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Volume 2, Number 38
Friday, September 27, 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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RUSSIA'S PROSECUTOR GENERAL WARNS ABOUT EXTREMIST SURGE

DUMA LEADER CONDEMNS SKINHEAD ATTACKS ON FOREIGNERS

INTERIOR MINISTER CALLS FOR TOUGHENING RULES ON MIGRATION

PATRIARCH, KREMLIN AIDE, SOLZHENITSYN OPPOSE DZERZHINSKY STATUE

RYBINSK AUTHORITIES IGNORE VANDALISM IN CEMETERIES AND GRAFFITI IN TOWN

BELARUS PROTESTANTS ASK GOVERNMENT TO STOP DEFAMATION

ARMENIAN PREMIER REFUSES TO COMPLY WITH TREATY OBLIGATIONS

GERMAN ELECTIONS TAINTED WITH ANTI-AMERICANISM

U.N. HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION IN CRISIS, HRW SAYS

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NEO-NAZI SKINHEAD VIOLENCE RIPPLES ACROSS RUSSIA
An Incomplete Monthly Survey

Skinheads organizing themselves to pursue acts of violence against
non-Slavs are very much in evidence across Russia, it appears from
scattered reports filed this month by UCSJ monitors and regional media.
Local law enforcement authorities ignore skinhead activities, and they
continue to deny that there is a skinhead problem.

1. In Oryol, skinheads are operating without interference from the
authorities, and some of their numerous programs have attracted the
participation of some teachers and businessmen, Radio Free Europe/Radio
Liberty has reported... 

2. In Perm, a group of skinheads in Perm's Motovilikhinsky district beat
an Arab student, according to the "Zvezda" newspaper on September 20.
Despite testimony by witnesses who identified the attackers as
skinheads, the police have not decided whether to investigate the
beating.

3. In Saransk, a group of skinheads were sentenced to prison on
September 9, marking the first time skinheads have been convicted in the
city, according to the newspaper "Stolitsa S" of September 18... 

4. In Voronezh, UCSJ's local monitor Roman Zholud reported further
details on an attempted firebombing on September 2 of a dormitory for
foreign students at Voronezh State University... 

5. In Moscow, five "hooligans" who beat up non-Slavs in the metro have
been detained, an officer of the Moscow Main Directorate of Internal
Affairs told RIA-Novosty news agency on September 19... 

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