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Holocaust memorial desecrated near St. Petersburg

In Puschkin, Leningrad region, a memorial to the victims of the Holocaust "Formula of Sorrow" was vandalized with offensive inscription in white paint.
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Russian university fires lecturer who denied Holocaust

A prestigious university in Moscow said it would fire a professor who denied the Holocaust on International Holocaust Remembrance Day.
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Siberian synagogue unveils 3m tall hanukiah made of ice

A synagogue in Tomsk, a Siberian city in Russia, has unveiled a giant hanukiah made of ice.
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Russian Federation

Jewish prisoner in Russian penal colony goes on hunger strike to get Shabbat off

A Russian-Jewish man imprisoned near Moscow said he’s going on a hunger strike to protest the violation of his religious rights.
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Obninsk, home of the world’s first nuclear power plant, gets its first synagogue

A synagogue has opened for the first time in Obninsk, a city near Moscow that was built in 1945 to accommodate the staff of the world’s first nuclear power plant.
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Dozens of headstones smashed at Jewish cemetery in Russia

Dozens of headstones at a Jewish cemetery in the Russian city of St. Petersburg were smashed.
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