JTA - 12.17.2004

Anti-Semitism flat in Russia

(JTA) -- The number of anti-Semitic incidents in Russia in 2004 remained unchanged from 2003. 

But there was an increase in the number of anti-Semitic and neo-Nazi periodicals, books and brochures published in Russia in 2004, participants at a Moscow conference said Wednesday. This year also was marked by dangerous behavior among ultranationalist groups: threats, beatings and even the murder of human rights activists who monitored radical extremist groups, Alexander Brod, director of the Moscow Bureau for Human Rights, told participants at the conference.