Jewish community`s office in Russian city of Ulyanovsk was vandalized by unidentified persons Monday.
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December 27, 2006Two Russian youths were sentenced to prison terms for a racially motivated attack on a Somali television reporter in the eastern Russian city of Yekaterinburg, RIA Novosti news agency reported Thursday.
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December 14, 2006
Moscow has protested against the distortion of history and attempts to conceal the truth regarding Nazi crimes, including the Holocaust, a spokesman for the Russian Foreign Ministry said Wednesday, the RIA-Novosti news agency reports.
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Amnesty International on Thursday urged Estonia to ease contentious language and citizenship laws that it said have alienated the Russian-speaking minority in the Baltic country.
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December 7, 2006
Members of a Hasidic Jewish movement may sue the Russian government in an effort to recover 18th-century religious writings and prayers seized by the Nazi and Soviet armies, the Associated Press reports.
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December 6, 2006
The Pushkinsky federal court of St. Petersburg has convicted Ruslan Melnik, who, according to the investigators was one of the leaders of the extremist group Mad Crowd.
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December 5, 2006Russia is indignant about “blasphemous†moves by Estonia to criminalize displays of Soviet symbols in public, the AFP news agency reported quoting the Russian Foreign Ministry release.
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December 4, 2006A Russian youth group plans to offer volunteer patrols for the region surrounding Moscow to help police fight crime and spot illegal migrants, its leaders said Thursday, the Associated Press reports.
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November 30, 2006A cafe in Petrozavodsk, capital of the republic of Karelia, was set ablaze early Friday, raising suspicions that the attack might be the latest in a series of race hate crimes that swept the region this fall.
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November 24, 2006The United States and the United Kingdom treated the entrance of Soviet troops into the Baltic states in the 1940s with understanding and viewed this step as an unpleasant but necessary measure to oppose Nazi Germany’s aggression.
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November 23, 2006
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