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                  Ascription of hostile actions and dangerous attitudes towards other nations and religious groups to Jews

                  There are two stable trends in this regard: the ascription of all possible “sins” of the Soviet regime to the Jews, and accusations of hostile activity in the present.

                  In January 2010, the LDPR fractions prepared a project of an address for the State Duma to the 140th anniversary of the founder of the Bolshevik party and the first Soviet Leader Vladimir Ulyanov-Lenin. The address has certain anti-Semitic undertones. Lenin himself was called “Ulyanov-Blanc.” The address stated that Lenin, Trotsky (whom the authors of the address consistently called “Bronstein,” to further stress his Jewishness) and Sverdlov “created a 'new morality,' which included the legalization of fratricidal civil war, the desecration of ancestral memory, the Russians renouncing their own history.” They also gave wild anti-Semitic guesses about the heads of the Russian royal family that had been shot in 1918 being allegedly kept in Lenin's mausoleum “for ritual purposes,” about Trotsky's “desire to turn Russia into a desert populated by white Negroes.” They also spoke of a “Russian Holocaust.”

                  On February 28th, the members of the Samara department of the Union of the Russian People (URP) participated in a rally against the rate increase for the housing service and utilities, customs duty, and taxes. The chairman of the URP department, Vorobyov, said in his speech that the situation today is “the result of a terroristic revolution in 1917, when Zionists took power in our country, the Bolsheviks headed by Lenin-Blanc, Leiba Bronstein (Trotsky), Kaganovich, and others. Their name is legions. This band of killers overthrew the legal, God-given rulers, ritually murdered the Tsar Nikolai II and his Family.” Then followed demagogic statements about those who “dislike” the situation are arrested in Russia according to article 282 of the Criminal Code, and that the number of those sentenced has reached several thousand. A demand was voiced to return to the monarchy and a “national-thinking Russian government.”

                  The March-April Ekaterinburg conflict on the restoration of the Church of St. Catherine on the Trud Square, one of the March 31st news installments of the Ural Television Agency (TAU), included a quote from Deputy of the Ekaterinburg City Duma Kabanov. Kabaov cited a piece of his conversation with the organizator of the protests against the rebuilding of the church, his colleague Volkov: “...Can you imagine what they will be saying about you? That some people, an international band of Russians and Jews and who knows who else came here, destroyed the temple and killed the priest... And then they'll be saying that another Jew came, and is stopping the rebuilding of the temple. Will that be ok with you?”

                  An archbishop of the Orthodox Church of Russia (RosPC), one of the alternative churches to the Russian Orthodox Church, Victor (Pivovarov) said in his sermon of the 9th of May: “Is the 9th of May a day of celebration for us, the people of Russia? This day is a tragedy... It would have been better even if Hitler had won. We would not have tolerated that foreigner for long. Is this “freedom” now? No, those same crucifiers scrounge on the Russian people. They have changed color – nothing more.” By “crucifiers” Pivovarov obviously means the Jews.

                  The beginning of July saw a scandal around the textbook titled “A History of Russia – 1917-2009” by Barsenkov and Vdovin. It included a number of anti-Semitic cliches on the “Jewish overabundance” in the USSR. Vdovin himself was quick to say that “the textbook includes only verified data and numbers.” He said that he was “very careful in answering the Jewish question.” But the scandal continued in the fall, ending in the decision of the MSU Academic Council to remove the textbook from academic activity (see below).

                  An article published on August 19 by M. Nazarov, dedicated to the anniversary of the Tambov rebellion, contained the thesis that the peasant uprisings of the Civil War had an anti-Semitic character. “Jews often led the military squads that took away food, as well as the anti-Church committees,” the author states, and then goes on about “commissars raised on the Talmud and Shulchan Aruch,” “commissar-Jews,” and the Jewish-organized “Russian Holocaust.”

                  On the 15th of December, RGGU professor Krushelnitsky spoke at an online press conference organized by the Russian Information Agency “News.” When speaking about Trotsky, he spouted anti-Semitic stereotypes of the significant role of American Jewish bankers in the revolution of 1917, taking his data from American conspiracy theorist Anthony Sutton.
                  The movie “Lev Trotsky. Mystery of the Global Revolution,” which is full of anti-Semitic fabrications, was shown at least twice on the central television channels.

                  On the 27th of March, the IslamNews website published an article by the Jewish anti-Semite Shamir, where he repeated traditional anti-Semitic clichés about the global Jewish conspiracy that aims to destroy Christianity and give world domination of Judaism. He stated that the Jews have allegedly already tried to colonize Ukraine and Russia. The massacre of the Jews by the cossacks of Bogdan Khmelnytsky was called a “decolonization,” and the Jewish pogroms of Russia in the 19th-20th centuries - “the intifada of the colonized.”

                  On March 31st, the rusidea.org website, which belongs to M. Nazarov, published a reply, the author of which accused “the global cabal” of the terroristic attacks in the Moscow metro of March 29, of organizing a “ritual murder.” Nazarov himself saw in the terroristic attacks an opportunity for the government to “justify their pro-American and pro-Israeli foreign policy.” He saw “a Jewish hand” even in the demise of the President of Poland, L. Kachinsky, which happened on the 9th of April, saying that the rabbi delegation that was to fly with Kachinsky refused the flight at the last possible moment. On the 24th of April, Nazarov accused the “global conspiracy,” inspired by anti-Christian-influence, of the Armenian genocide.

                  In the beginning of July, publications appeared on several nationalistic websites and blogs, dedicated to the anniversary of Khazaria, which purportedly happened on July 3rd, and was interpreted by nationalists as a victory against Judaism. The “Jewish” and “parasitic” character of Khazaria was stressed numerous times, as well as its intent to sell Slavic slaves. This created an impression in the readers that the Jews have an ancient enmity towards Russian. “On this day, from now on and for all time, we – the Russians – will celebrate Victory Day over Judaic Khazaria. This Victory allowed the very existence and physical survival of the Russian people,” one of the articles read. Two articles, published on the website of the suppressed organization “Slavic Union” on July 5 and 6, also stressed the parasitic essence of Khazaria and the Judaism of its leaders. The banishment of Jews from a number of countries was interpreted to be “just national policy of clear-thinking rulers.”

                  Bishop Pytyrym of Syktyvkar, when speaking on August 28th at eparchy conference “God and the World Evil in Aspects of Globalization,” tried to support the thesis of the “activation of the dark forces of the global conspiracy” with the participation of a “Jewish-Mason loge member” Andrei Bogdanov in the Russian presidential elections.

                  In the fall of 2010, the Algorithm publishing house published a book by ex-Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of Press and Information M. N. Poltoranin, “Power in Trinitrotoluol Equivalent: Chronicles of Tsar Boris.” In his book, Poltoranin attempted to “prove” the existence of a world oligarchy, headed by the B'nai B'rith (this is one of the variations of the anti-Semitic theory about a global Jewish conspiracy).

                  On December 18, the website “Russian Popular Line” published a letter by the parishioners of the Irkutsk Church of the Shroud of the Mother of God. It read that the erection of Chanukah menorah on public squares is “provocative, impudent, and degrading for the people of Russia, most of whom are either Orthodox or Muslim, and is, at heart, a call towards religious hatred.” Their letter also stated that the erection of a Chanukiah in a public place is against Jewish laws of Chanukah celebration, which allegedly allow only the lighting of candles in synagogues and private homes, and also that Judaism was never a traditional Russian religion.