Russian court sentenced a Moscow University law student to 150 hours of community service for sending an anti-Semitic SMS message to a live television program dedicated to Victory in Europe day, RIA Novosti news agency reported March 6.

According to local prosecutors, Andrei Kachanov, 22, sent an SMS humiliating the national dignity of Jews and non-Russians and calling for extremist actions against them to a live television program of the Radonezhye broadcasting company in Sergiyev Posad, in the Moscow Region, May 9, 2006.

The student was found guilty of provoking hatred and discrimination against a religious group through the media.

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