MINELRES: Bigotry Monitor: Volume 6, Numbers 13, 14, 15, 16 (content)
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Volume 6, Number 16
Friday, April 28, 2006
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 BLOODIEST APRIL
OFFICIALS DENY RACIST VIOLENCE A PROBLEM
OMBUDSMAN'S REPORT TO PUTIN BARELY MENTIONS MURDERS
AZERI MURDERED
ARMENIAN KILLED IN MOSCOW
TAJIK STABBED TO DEATH IN MOSCOW
SKINHEAD KILLED IN A MARKET CLASH
RACIST YOUTHS RAMPAGE ON MOSCOW METRO
NINE FOREIGNERS ATTACKED
SKINHEAD ATTACKS DISCOURAGE TOURISM?
KOSTROMA YOUTHS CHARGED WITH HATE CRIME
ORENBURG SYNAGOGUE VANDALIZED
YOUTHS DETAINED FOR TAKING PICTURES UNDER A NAZI FLAG
TEENAGE SKINHEADS DETAINED FOR POSTING FASCIST LEAFLETS
POLICE STOP NEO-NAZI MARCH
MINORITY RIGHTS GROUP CONDEMNS MP'S ANTISEMITIC SPEECH
UKRAINIAN EXTREMISTS MARCH IN KHARKOV
ISRAELI STUDENT ATTACKED IN UKRAINE
ODESSA HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL DEFACED
* * * QUOTE OF THE WEEK, THE MEANING OF 'POLITICIZATION' * * *
THE RUSSIAN GOVERNMENT BUYS NGOS
Little by Little, Putin's Repressive NGO Law Chokes the NGO Sector
1. Russia's Public Chamber needed about an hour on April 25 to
distribute 500 million rubles allocated from the federal budget to
support nongovernmental organizations (NGOs), the daily "Kommersant"
reported. Half of the money will go to the social projects implemented
by public institutions, and the rest will be spent to strengthen their
material and technical base...
2. Lyudmila Alekseyeva, the veteran Soviet era dissident who heads the
Moscow Helsinki Group, has called the NGO law that has gone into effect
this month "fundamentally unconstitutional" and suggested that it might
destroy the NGO sector...
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Volume 6, Number 15
Friday, April 21, 2006
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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The sudden spike of deadly violence targeting non-Slavs across the
Russian Federation is shocking news barely mentioned in the media
outside Russia. Over the past several years, racist rampage has peaked
around Adolf Hitler's birthday, April 20, but this month's unprecedented
death toll raises the question whether a new, grassroots, intifada-like
phenomenon is in the works.
1. FOUR GYPSIES KILLED IN TWO ATTACKS HUNDREDS OF MILES APART
2. SKINHEADS THROW TWO TAJIKS FROM MOSCOW TRAIN, ONE DIES
3. ST. PETERSBURG SKINHEADS KILL AFRICAN
4. ANTI-FASCIST PUNK ROCK FAN MURDERED
5. VIETNAMESE BEATEN TO DEATH; OTHER FOREIGNERS WOUNDED
6. GOVERNMENT PLANS TOUGHER HATE CRIME PENALTIES
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FASCIST MARCH NO VIOLATION OF HATE SPEECH LAW, COURT RULES
FAR-RIGHT LEADER CHARGED WITH STOKING RACE HATRED
ROSTOV SYNAGOGUE ATTACKER RULED INSANE
JEWS THREATENED IN IZHEVSK
POLICE TARGET JEHOVAH'S WITNESSES
UZBEK AUTHORITIES RAID JEHOVAH WITNESS SERVICES
UKRAINIAN SYNAGOGUE ATTACKED
HOLOCAUST MONUMENT DEFACED IN ESTONIA
* * * QUOTE OF THE WEEK, PROTESTING THE NEW LAW * * *
ORTHODOX CHURCH TO PROPAGATE ITS OWN HUMAN RIGHTS PLATFORM
Church and State Set to Combat the "False Values" of the West
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Volume 6, Number 14
Friday, April 7, 2006
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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THE NGO LAW AND ITS ADVERSE EFFECTS
1. RUSSIAN AUTHORITIES BLOCK WESTERN FUNDS FOR HUMAN RIGHTS GROUPS
2. MCCAIN URGES 'HARSH' RESPONSE TO PUTIN'S UNDEMOCRATIC MEASURES
3. NOT GIVING UP ON RUSSIA?
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MOSCOW SKINHEADS ATTACK BALKARIA OFFICIAL
SKINHEADS ATTACK AZERI TV REPORTER
POLL SHOWS 12% OF RUSSIANS SEE 'POSITIVE IDEAS' IN FASCISM
CRUSADE AGAINST ETHNIC HATRED IS ON. BUT WHO IS LISTENING?
SYNAGOGUE ATTACKER PLEADS FOR LIGHTER SENTENCE
NEW GROUP TO FIGHT XENOPHOBIA
METROPOLITAN KIRILL HAS A THEORY
* * * QUOTE OF THE WEEK, A CRY FROM THE HEART * * *
HOLLAND AT A LOSS TO COPE WITH RADICALS WHO FEEL FREE 'TO KILL FOR
ISLAM'
The Decline and Fall of the Dangerous Fiction of 'Integration but No
Assimilation'
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Volume 6, Number 13
Friday, March 31, 2006
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 VIOLENCE SURGES IN RUSSIA'S SECOND CITY
1. TWO TEENAGE SKINHEADS STAB AFRICAN-RUSSIAN GIRL, 9
2. MAN FROM GHANA BEATEN
3. NEO-NAZIS ASSAIL ANTI-FASCISTS
4. 'MANUAL OF STREET TERROR' ADVISES KILLERS
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RUSSIAN JEWISH GROUP BLASTS COURTS
NEO-NAZIS IN MOSCOW CHARGED WITH MURDER
ANTI-RACISM ACTIVIST ATTACKED IN ORYOL
EXTREMISTS ASSAIL NON-RUSSIAN TRADERS
8 JAILED FOR ATTACKING MIGRANTS
ATTACKERS OF TWO U.S. MISSIONARIES FOUND GUILTY
TWO JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTERS VANDALIZED
DEFENSE MINISTER IVANOV INSULTS SIBERIA'S NATIVE FAITH
MOSCOW HARE KRISHNAS LOSE LAND CASE
HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL VANDALIZED IN SEVASTOPOL
* * * QUOTE OF THE WEEK, CRUSHING OF THE OPPOSITION * * *
RUSSIA'S PUBLIC CHAMBER DEFINES FASCISM AS A SERIOUS THREAT
New Advisory Body Issues a Strong Statement
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