MINELRES: Bigotry Monitor: Volume 2, Number 39 (content)
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Volume 2, Number 39
Friday, October 4, 2002
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 ADOPTS EUROPE'S MOST REPRESSIVE RELIGION LAW
SKINHEAD VIOLENCE IN CHELYABINSK AND SARATOV
RUSSIAN TEENAGERS CLASH WITH ETHNIC ARMENIAN YOUTHS
ST. PETERSBURG MONUMENT TO GULAG VICTIMS DEFILED
KEMEROVO ACTIVISTS PAINT OVER SWASTIKAS AND GRAFFITI
MINORITY LEADERS CONDEMN RACIST STATEMENT OF VIGILANTE LEADER
VANDALS ATTACKING ROSTOV SYNAGOGUE SENTENCED TO PROBATION
SKINHEAD GETS A SLAP ON THE WRIST
LATVIAN POLICE SEIZES EXTREMIST LEAFLETS AND EXPLOSIVES
MILOSEVIC'S TRIAL SETS NEW MILESTONES
* * * QUOTE OF THE WEEK * * * "Fascism rises when there is a profound
economic crisis," Union of Right Forces leader Boris Nemtsov told "Ekho
Moskvy Radio" on September 27. "Fascism also arises when there is a huge
flow of immigrants. For instance, the extremist organizations and
ultra-right parties in many countries, even in France, which is faring
quite well, have scored great successes at elections� It is because the
uncontrolled immigration -- which is exactly what poses a threat to
Russia, leading to a growth of nationalist attitudes."
CORRECTION: Last week, in an item dealing with the German elections, we
mistakenly identified former Justice Minister Herta Daeubler-Gmelin as a
Christian Democrat. She is, of course, a Social Democrat who served in a
Social Democratic cabinet. We regret the error.
RUSSIAN JUSTICE MINISTRY REGISTERS NEW NAZI PARTY OF 'REVENGE.'
A 'Battle Unit' of 'the Global Intifada' Formed in Moscow
Without a hint of the smallest bureaucratic problem, on September 16
Russia's Justice Ministry granted official registration to an extreme
nationalist, blatantly antisemitic party, the National Power Party of
Russia (NDPR), "Novye Izvestia" reported on September 26...
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