Synagogue Defaced With Swastikas And Slogans On Pacific Coast:

http://www.mosnews.com/news/2007/03/02/defiled.shtml

Vandals scrawled swastikas and anti-Semitic slogans on the walls of the main synagogue n the Russian city of Vladivostok on Friday, The Associated Press news agency reports.

Jewish community leaders in the Pacific Coast city alerted police after they arrived at the synagogue in the morning and found its entrance door and outer walls covered with swastikas and slogans. Two adjacent buildings were also defaced.

A similar incident occurred at the synagogue in October.

Russia and the Soviet Union had a long history of state-sponsored anti-Semitism. The state no longer perpetuates anti-Semitism following the Soviet collapse, but many Jews and rights advocates have accused Russian authorities of being silent in the face anti-Semitism and other expressions of xenophobia.

In recent years, Russia has experienced a marked rise in hate attacks targeting nonwhite or dark-skinned residents, foreigners and Jews.

>Just like cabals of Rabbis charge everyone in North America for cursing their food and household products with Judaistic spells and symbols, perhaps the Jews should be charged for the spraypaint and hourly rate of the artists for blessing their temple of hatred with the holy sun symbol.

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Mayor Of Moscow Denounces Queers At Conference With Faggot Mayors Of London And Paris

http://www.mosnews.com/news/2007/03/02/gaymayors.shtml

Moscow Mayor Yuri Luzhkov publicly spoke against homosexuality calling it “wrong and unusual’’ in a London news conference attended by his Paris and Berlin counterparts, both of them gay, the Bloomberg.com web-site reported March 1.

Luzhkov, in the U.K. capital for a meeting of the leaders of Europe’s four largest cities, also repeated his opposition to a Gay Pride parade planned for May 27 in Moscow. He has called such a march ”satanic.“ Last year’s Moscow Gay Pride parade, held in defiance of a ban, was broken up by police.

``Through the gay parade you promote some uncertain people and it becomes an invitation to acquire this quality of the sexual minorities,’’ Luzhkov said at the briefing with the mayors of London, Paris and Berlin.

The Moscow mayor, in office since 1992, conceded that Paris Mayor Bertrand Delanoe and Berlin Mayor Klaus Wowereit disagreed with his views when they met with London Mayor Ken Livingstone, a longtime supporter of gays and lesbians.

The mayors discussed the issue ``in a peaceful and calm way,’’ Delanoe said. ``We have to look at equality of rights, and that leads us to combat every form of discrimination or stigmatizing of individuals because of their sex, their religion, color of their skin or their personal identity,’’ he said.

Livingstone and Wowereit didn’t comment publicly on Luzhkov’s views.

The mayors also agreed to cooperate in areas such as transportation, climate change, terrorism and planning. They will meet next year in Paris.

A dozen gay-rights advocates picketed outside London City Hall during the meeting. Organizers are planning to go ahead with the Moscow parade, the London-based gay-rights group OutRage! said in an e-mailed statement.

>Good work Yuri Mikhailovich! We discriminate between better and worse, and sick and healthy!