MINELRES: Bigotry Monitor: Volume 8, Numbers 17-21 (content)
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Volume 8, Number 21
Friday, May 23, 2008
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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U.S. 'DEEPLY CONCERNED' WITH U.S. CITIZEN ZELTSER'S HEALTH IN BELARUS
JAIL
MOSCOW PROSECUTORS SUMMON ART CURATOR
NEO-NAZI GANG CHARGED WITH 32 ATTACKS ON MEMBERS OF ETHNIC MINORITIES
NEO-NAZIS BRUTALIZE THREE ON THE MOSCOW METRO
RAID ON NEO-NAZI'S HOME YIELDS ARSENAL OF WEAPONS
JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER ATTACKED
RACIST ATTACK IN KALININGRAD
PRESS INSTITUTE URGES MEDVEDEV TO REVERSE PLIGHT OF RUSSIAN JOURNALISTS
DUMA STOPS BACKING STRINGENT NEW MEDIA LAW
IN KIEV, FAR-RIGHT RALLY FEATURES ANTISEMITIC AND ANTI-RUSSIAN SLOGANS
AFTER ANTI-GYPSY RIOT, BERLUSCONI THREATENS CRACKDOWN ON MIGRANTS
* * * QUOTE OF THE WEEK, BLAMING ALL GOVERNMENTS * * *
HATE CRIMES DENIED, ACTIVISTS FOR AND AGAINST MINORITIES TURN TO
VIOLENCE
Rise of Xenophobia Prompts New Approaches
1. AN OASIS OF PEACE?
2. EXTREMISTS ATTACK RULING PARTY AS SOFT ON MIGRANTS
3. ANTIFASCISTS SAY THEY ARE 'DRIVEN TO VIOLENCE'
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Volume 8, Number 20
Friday, May 16, 2008
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 charge is incitement of ethnic or religious hatred but Russian
prosecutors act on the basis of the law against extremism that is only
vaguely defined, allowing the government to punish its critics. The
following six cases suggest that Russian authorities are stepping up
hate crime prosecutions, perhaps in response to President Dmitry
Medvedev's emphasis on the importance of the law. However, human rights
advocates also see the government determined to exploit the law to
further stifle freedom of expression.
1. MOSCOW ART GALLERY DIRECTOR CHARGED
2. CHERKIZOV MARKET BOMBERS GET LIFE SENTENCES
3. SIX NEO-NAZIS SENTENCED IN MOSCOW
4. VANDALS OF KRASNOYARSK JEWISH CEMETERY FACE CHARGES OF ETHNIC HATRED
5. TWO CHARGED WITH HATE CRIME, MISTAKENLY ATTACKING FELLOW SLAV
6. WEB SITE CHARGED WITH ETHNIC HATRED
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NEO-NAZIS ASSAULT GAY RIGHTS ACTIVISTS
ANTISEMITIC VIOLENCE IN TULA
CEMETERIES DESECRATED IN TWO RUSSIAN REGIONS
GERMAN CELEBRITIES JOIN CAMPAIGN AGAINST NEO-NAZISM
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TWO CORRECTIONS
1. NO HITLER DOLLS FOR SALE IN KIEV
2. U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES CONDEMNS RUSSIA FOR THREATENING GEORGIA
* * * QUOTE OF THE WEEK, UKRAINE AS AN ISLAND OF FREEDOM * * *
STALIN'S APOLOGISTS GO INTO THE OFFENSIVE
Historians Steeped in the Stalin Era Attempt to Restart the Stalin Cult
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1. FSB CALLS FOR CANCELING 1989 DENUNCIATION OF 1939 STALIN-HITLER PACT
2. PAVLOVA: REVERSION TO STALINIST LIES WILL TURN PEOPLE TO THE TRUTH
3. BELARUS KGB PRESSURES ORTHODOX NOT TO VENERATE SOVIET-ERA MARTYRS
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Volume 8, Number 18
Friday, May 2, 2008
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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BELARUS IS ASKED TO RELEASE U.S. LAWYER
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As more news of the hate festival marking Adolf Hitler's birthday come
in, some Russian officials crack down on hate crimes while others
continue to issue denials of the existence of neo-Nazi groups.
1. NEO-NAZIS MURDER RUSSIAN STUDENT, INJURE ANOTHER
2. NEO-NAZIS STAB AND BEAT UZBEKS
3. NIZHNY NOVGOROD POLICE LAUNCH OPERATION AGAINST EXTREMISTS
4. 'NO EXTREMIST GROUPS HERE,' STAVROPOL OFFICIALS DECLARE
5. VANDALS STRIKE JEWISH CEMETERY NEAR ODESSA
6. HITLER DOLLS ON SALE IN UKRAINE
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FAR-RIGHT MARCH IN MOSCOW ENDS IN RACIST VIOLENCE
MOSCOW AGAIN BANS GAY PARADE
AUTHORITIES MAY HAVE PREVENTED ANTI-MIGRANT RIOT
TWO YOUTHS SENTENCED IN HATE CRIME CASE
JURY FINDS FOUR GUILTY OF KILLING 14 TRADERS AT A MOSCOW MARKET
* * * QUOTE OF THE WEEK, WARNINGS AND BOASTS BY LUKASHENKO * * *
U.S. RELIGIOUS FREEDOM GROUP DECRIES RISE OF RACISM AND XENOPHOBIA
Annual Report Paints a Bleak Picture
1. RACIST AND XENOPHOBIC VIOLENCE RAMPANT IN OSCE REGION
2. RUSSIA MUST COUNTER 'SEVERE VIOLATIONS OF RELIGIOUS FREEDOM'
3. BELARUS GUILTY OF 'SERIOUS VIOLATIONS'
4. REPRESSION IN TURKMENISTAN 'LARGELY UNCHANGED'
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Volume 8, Number 17
Friday, April 25, 2008
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 powerful Ministry of the Interior has weighed in on the debate
on the grave dangers posed by the growth of extremism. Its statements
suggest proprietary interest in the subject. But not everyone in the
government is in agreement on the numbers of far-rights activists and
their significance.
1. RUSSIA'S INTERIOR MINISTRY RAISES ALARM OVER EXREMIST CRIME SURGE
2. "EXTREMISM POSES GREATER THREAT THAN TERRORISM."
3. KRASNODAR PROSECUTOR WORRIED ABOUT RISING EXTREMISM
4. ST. PETERSBURG PROSECUTORS SAY HATE CRIMES NUMBERS DROP
5. RUSSIAN PROSECUTORS SAY CUSTOMS OFFICIALS FAIL TO BLOCK EXTREMISM
6. POLICE STANDS BY AS FAR-RIGHT RALLY THREATENS TERRORISM
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THREE RACIST ATTACKS SO FAR THIS YEAR IN TAMBOV
FIVE ARRESTED FOR RACIST MURDER
RARE HATE CRIME CONVICTION IN UKRAINE
VANDAL DETAINED FOR BREAKING ESTONIAN BAPTIST CHURCH'S WINDOW
TURKMEN OFFICIALS RAID BIBLE CLASS
* * * QUOTE OF THE WEEK, MASSACRE OF LONG AGO REMEMBERED * * *
NEO-NAZIS CELEBRATE HITLER'S BIRTHDAY
No Sign of the Nazi Cult Losing Strength
The days before and after Adolf Hitler's birthday, April 20, neo-Nazis
mark the occasion by conducting themselves in ways that would please
their dead Fuhrer. So far this year, only a few routine incidents have
been reported in the former Soviet Union. But in the last incident, in a
Ukrainian town that has been in recent months a focus of vicious
antisemitic incidents, officials cooperated by defending a grave
desecration with an explanation that would have made Yosif Stalin proud.
1. IN THREE DAYS, THREE NON-SLAVS KILLED IN RUSSIA
2. SWASTIKA FLAG APPEARS IN LITHUANIA
3. DOZENS OF SWASTIKAS DAUBED ON BELARUS HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL
4. ANTISEMITIC VANDALISM IN UKRAINE
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