MINELRES: Bigotry Monitor: Volume 9, Numbers 29, 30, 31 (content)

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Volume 9, Number 31
August 7, 2009

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 MURDERS IN RUSSIA UP IN JULY

HUMAN RIGHTS LEADERS APPEAL TO MEDVEDEV

EXTREMISTS SUSPECTED OF INVOLVEMENT IN ATTACK ON HUMAN RIGHTS ACTIVIST

BLOGGER DETAINED, OPPOSITION WEB SITE BLOCKED IN BASHKORTOSTAN

POLICE RAID ON ANOTHER MOSCOW MARKET FRIGHTENS TRADERS

PROSECUTORS INVESTIGATE NEO-NAZI GANG ON MURDER AND ASSAULT CHARGES

GANG MEMBERS FACE HATE CRIME CHARGES FOR ATTACKING ELDERLY ARMENIAN

VANDALS STRIKE JEWISH GRAVESTONES IN TVER


* * * QUOTE OF THE WEEK, THE KREMLIN MUST STOP THE KILLINGS * * * 


RACIST KILLERS STRIKE AT MIDNIGHT IN HUNGARY
Middle-aged Roma Woman the Sixth Victim Since Last Summer

At about midnight on August 2, an unidentified attacker - or perhaps two
- shot to death a 45-year-old Roma widow, Maria Balogh, in Kisleta, in
Hungary's northeastern Szabolcs County and wounded her 13-year-old
daughter who remains in critical condition, according to the Hungarian
Press Agency (MTI)... 

1. ANTI-ROMA ATTACKS FALL INTO A PATTERN

2. LIBERALS CALL FOR EMERGENCY SESSION OF PARLIAMENT

3. ROMA LEADER APPEALS TO EUROPEAN INSTITUTIONS

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Volume 9, Number 30
July 31, 2009

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
_______________________________________________________

It has been a tragic summer for the Russian human rights community and
for Chinese traders in Moscow whose goods were confiscated and now face
mass deportation. At the same time, Russia's head of state suggests that
his country should acquire a friendlier image in the international
community. But when some blunt words are said across the Atlantic, the
sensitivities of Russian leaders are ruffled. 

1. ONE RUSSIAN HUMAN RIGHTS LEADER KILLED, ANOTHER SHOT IN THE FACE

2. HUGE MOSCOW MARKET SHUT DOWN; 60,000 CHINESE TRADERS LOSE JOBS

3. RUSSIA NEEDS COZY IMAGE, MEDVEDEV SAYS

4. BIDEN'S CANDOR BRUISES KREMLIN SENSITIVITIES


57% OF RUSSIANS SEE NEED FOR AN OPPOSITION

VORONEZH COURT SENTENCES MAN ON HATE CRIME CHARGES

TEENAGE SKINHEADS FOUND GUILTY OF RACIST GRAFFITI

SWASTIKAS DAUBED ON MUSLIM GRAVESTONES

UKRAINE COURT SENTENCES ANTISEMITIC ATTACKER ON 'HOOLIGANISM' CHARGES


* * * QUOTE OF THE WEEK, REMEMBERING A MURDERED HUMAN RIGHTS ACTIVIST *
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PEACE IN CHECHNYA? UNITY OF RUSSIAN AND UKRAINIAN ORTHODOX CHURCHES?
The Goals Seem Remote but Moscow Forges Ahead

The Kremlin is moving forward on two fronts: to stop the simmering armed
conflict in Chechnya and to recapture control over Ukraine's
independent-minded, "schismatic" Orthodox church.

1. CHECHEN REBELS REACH ACCORD WITH KADYROV

2. RUSSIAN PATRIARCH CALLS FOR 'UNBREAKABLE UNITY' WITH UKRAINE

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Volume 9, Number 29
July 24, 2009

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
_______________________________________________________ 

MEDVEDEV PROMOTES RELIGION IN HIGH SCHOOL AND ARMY

MOSCOW MAYOR CHASTIZES POLICE FOR COVERING UP HATE CRIMES

TWO TATAR HUMAN RIGHTS GROUPS RAIDED

TATAR WRITER ANGERS PRESIDENT AND LANDS IN COURT

ANTI-FASCISTS ACCUSE AUTHORITIES OF LEAKING PERSONAL DATA TO EXTREMISTS

RUSSIA DEPORTS JEHOVAH'S WITNESS LAWYERS

ROCK THROWN THROUGH A WINDOW OF A JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER

POLICE PRESSURE JEWISH COMMUNITY NOT TO REPORT VANDALISM

UKRAINE BANS TWO BOOKS FOR DAMAGING NATIONAL DIGNITY

HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL UNVEILED IN UKRAINE

CONVICTED OF HATE SPEECH, TEACHER STILL WORKING AT KIROVOGRAD SCHOOL

EU PROTESTS ARREST OF TWO AZERI OPPOSITION BLOGGERS

ANTISEMITIC INCIDENTS ALARM BULGARIAN JEWS

ONLY SLOVAK TO BE SPOKEN IN SLOVAKIA, NEW LAW SAYS


* * * QUOTE OF THE WEEK, U.S. REASSURANCES TO UKRAINE * * * 


BOSNIA'S MUSLIMS AND SERBS STILL SPLIT AS THEY RECALL 1995 MASSACRE
The Identification of Corpses Not Yet at a Half-Way Mark 

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