MINELRES: Bigotry Monitor: Volume 8, Numbers 7, 8 (content)
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Volume 8, Number 8
Friday, February 22, 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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As we go to press, the Russian press logged 23 probable hate crime
murders in 2008, most of them in Moscow. "Soaring ethnic-related crime
rates are a terrifying reality these days," the official Itar-Tass news
agency reported on February 19.
HATE-CRIME NUMBERS IN 2008 SET RECORD
NEO-NAZIS MURDER YOUTH FROM UNSPECIFIED MINORITY
YOUTHS KILL TAJIK IN MOSCOW
KYRGYZ STABBED TO DEATH
NORTH CAUCASUS NATIVE KILLED IN MOSCOW
UZBEK STABBED TO DEATH
KYRGYZ KILLED
FIVE TAJIKS STABBED
NEO-NAZIS AND ANTI-FASCISTS CLASH IN MOSCOW
VANDALISM TARGETING RELIGIOUS INSTITUTIONS ROSE IN 2007
FAR-RIGHT LEADER SENTENCED TO THREE YEARS
MEDVEDEV CHARGES FOREIGN NGOS WITH ESPIONAGE
RUSSIAN JEWS OUTRAGED BY REVISION OF WWII HISTORY
UKRAINIAN TV AIRS ANTISEMITIC BROADCAST
NEW UKRAINIAN OFFICIAL TO FIGHT ANTISEMITISM
* * * QUOTE OF THE WEEK, MEDVEDEV'S PRINCIPLE * * *
IS KOSOVO A MODEL?
Historians will find the declaration of independence by the 90% ethnic
Albanian majority in Kosovo inevitable, given the brutality of Serbian
ethnic cleansing stopped by NATO forces in 1999 and the paroxysms of
hatred engendered in the former Serbian province. But the broad
international recognition and promises of support led by the United
States, Britain, and Germany are certain to encourage a number of
similar ethnic enclaves to
pursue independence.
The world community is now sharply divided over the wisdom of Kosovo
joining it as the 193rd member state. Despite Western insistence that
independence for Kosovo is a unique case and should not set a precedent,
Russia has sharply warned the United States that the move to acknowledge
Kosovo's sovereignty is "undermining international law" and will lead to
a "chain reaction" of similar announcements by secessionist-minded
regions. Though the United States and leading European countries have
made it clear that Kosovo's government must respect the rights of
120,000 Serbs remaining in Kosovo, Serbian leaders including Prime
Minister Vojislav Kostunica declared that as long as Serbian nation
exists, it will not recognize Kosovo as a separate state.
Is statehood by small ethnic communities a human right? Will the Kosovo
model spread around the world? Is what used to be condemned as
"Balkanization" an unmitigated disaster?
1. THE TRANSDNESTR REPUBLIC SEEKS WORLD RECOGNITION
2. RECOGNITION LINKED TO PRO-RUSSIAN STANCE?
3. IRREVERSIBLE CONSEQUENCES AND NO SOLUTION POSSIBLE
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Volume 8, Number 7
Friday, February 15, 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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STUDY FINDS RUSSIAN TEXTBOOKS ANTISEMITIC
OMBUDSMAN FAULTS RUSSIA'S JUDICIAL SYSTEM
PRESS GROUP SURVEY SCORES RUSSIA
NGOS GET MORE DOMESTIC FUNDING, SAYS RUSSIA'S HUMAN RIGHTS CHIEF
AZERI KILLED IN MOSCOW, ATTACK RECORDED
ANOTHER NEO-NAZI MURDER SUSPECTED
NEO-NAZIS IN OMSK CHARGED WITH MURDER
NEO-NAZI ARRESTED, SUSPECTED OF MURDERING TAJIK
PROSECUTORS CHARGE TWO SUSPECTS WITH HATE CRIME
NEO-NAZIS ATTACK ANTI-FASCIST MUSICIANS
EX-CABINET MEMBER DODGES PRISON SENTENCE
KEMEROVO OFFICIALS DEMONIZE MORMONS
HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL SET ON FIRE IN BELARUS
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REMEMBERING TOM LANTOS
* * * QUOTE OF THE WEEK, AGAINST SHARIA'S ADOPTION IN THE WEST * * *
PURE PUTIN
The President Defines Past and Future, Making It Clear That He Stays at
the Helm
'POLITICAL LAWLESSNESS' HAS BEEN DEFEATED
RUSSIA WILL SOON RANK AS THE WORLD'S BEST COUNTRY
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