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(53,823 posts)Ukraines Jews Dismiss Claims of Anti-Semitism
NIPROPETROVSK, Ukraine From his office atop the worlds biggest Jewish community center, Shmuel Kaminezki, the chief rabbi of this eastern Ukrainian city, has followed with dismay Russian claims that Ukraine is now in the hands of neo-Nazi extremists and struggled to calm his panicked 85-year-old mother in New York.
Raised in Russia and a regular viewer of Russian television, she calls every day to ask, Have the pogroms happened yet?'? Rabbi Kaminezki said. He tells his mother that they have not, and that she should stop watching Russian TV. It is a total lie, he said. Jews are not in danger in Ukraine.
Russias president, Vladimir V. Putin, added his own voice to the scaremongering in a speech at the Kremlin on March 18, when he described the ouster of President Viktor F. Yanukovych of Ukraine as an armed coup executed by nationalists, neo-Nazis, Russophobes and anti-Semites who continue to set the tone in Ukraine to this day.
But instead of reeling in panic at any fascist resurgence, the Jewish community of Dnipropetrovsk, one of the largest in Ukraine, is celebrating the recent appointment of one of its own, a billionaire tycoon named Ihor Kolomoysky, as the regions most powerful official.
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/09/world/europe/ukraines-jews-dismiss-claims-of-anti-semitism.html
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Still has jack shit to do with your claims, or more importantly, the OP.