Recent Bigotry Monitor

Volume 10, Number 9
March 5, 2010

BIGOTRY MONITOR

A Weekly Human Rights Newsletter on Antisemitism, Xenophobia, and Religious Persecution in the Former Communist World and Western Europe

EDITOR: CHARLES FENYVESI
(News and Editorial Policy within the sole discretion of the editor)

Published by UCSJ: Union of Councils for Jews in the Former Soviet Union
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Russia’s police got into a new scandal over a provincial whistleblower’s arrest, followed by the arrest of the whistleblower’s public defender. Then a day after the defender’s release from police custody, he was severely beaten. A new investigation of the whistleblower’s charges is now ordered by Moscow while his defender, a well-known human rights activist, is undergoing surgery.

Volume 10, Number 8
February 26, 2010

BIGOTRY MONITOR

A Weekly Human Rights Newsletter on Antisemitism, Xenophobia, and Religious Persecution in the Former Communist World and Western Europe

EDITOR: CHARLES FENYVESI
(News and Editorial Policy within the sole discretion of the editor)

Published by UCSJ: Union of Councils for Jews in the Former Soviet Union
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We are used to bad news from Russia: murders of human rights activists, police brutality with opposition demonstrators, the coarse putdowns of critics by Vladimir Putin. Now there is discouraging poll of what used to be called “the broad masses.”

Volume 10, Number 7
February 19, 2010

BIGOTRY MONITOR

A Weekly Human Rights Newsletter on Antisemitism, Xenophobia, and Religious Persecution in the Former Communist World and Western Europe

EDITOR: CHARLES FENYVESI
(News and Editorial Policy within the sole discretion of the editor)

Published by UCSJ: Union of Councils for Jews in the Former Soviet Union
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The conduct of police gives most Russians cause for concern, especially among those in the human rights community. For the first time, high-ranking police officers are attempting to improve communication with the people they are under orders to target.

Volume 10, Number 6
February 12, 2010

BIGOTRY MONITOR

A Weekly Human Rights Newsletter on Antisemitism, Xenophobia, and Religious Persecution in the Former Communist World and Western Europe

EDITOR: CHARLES FENYVESI
(News and Editorial Policy within the sole discretion of the editor)

Published by UCSJ: Union of Councils for Jews in the Former Soviet Union
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While Prime Minister Vladimir Putin issued a stern warning to leaders of his party “to listen to the people,” his hand-picked successor, President Dmitry Medvedev, allowed his think tank to call for radical changes including “a genuine multi-party system.” Regardless of how the two top leaders in Moscow settle their differences, election commissions in the provinces still have the power to stop opposition parties to field candidates.

Volume 10, Number 5
February 5, 2010

BIGOTRY MONITOR

A Weekly Human Rights Newsletter on Antisemitism, Xenophobia, and Religious Persecution in the Former Communist World and Western Europe

EDITOR: CHARLES FENYVESI
(News and Editorial Policy within the sole discretion of the editor)

Published by UCSJ: Union of Councils for Jews in the Former Soviet Union
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Police actions of questionable legality are on the rise across Russia.

Volume 10, Number 4
January 29, 2010

BIGOTRY MONITOR

A Weekly Human Rights Newsletter on Antisemitism, Xenophobia, and Religious Persecution in the Former Communist World and Western Europe

EDITOR: CHARLES FENYVESI
(News and Editorial Policy within the sole discretion of the editor)

Published by UCSJ: Union of Councils for Jews in the Former Soviet Union
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Russian’s police are coming under increasing criticism.

2009: GRIM YEAR FOR RUSSIA’S HUMAN RIGHTS COMMUNITY
A Yearly Summary of Bigotry Monitor Reports on the Decline of Russian Democracy

By Charles Fenyvesi

In its ninth year of publication in 2009, the weekly electronic newsletter Bigotry Monitor tracked the alarming further decline of Russian democracy. As many as eight human rights activists and their associates were murdered and the judicial system failed to protect non-Slavs and religious minorities from attacks by skinheads and other racists. Collecting reports from courageous local observers and foreign witnesses and citing studies filed by international organizations, the newsletter documented the impunity enjoyed by the perpetrators of hate crimes and the authorities’ indifference bordering on complicity to the violations of laws against hate crimes.

Volume 10, Number 3
January 22, 2010

BIGOTRY MONITOR

A Weekly Human Rights Newsletter on Antisemitism, Xenophobia, and Religious Persecution in the Former Communist World and Western Europe

EDITOR: CHARLES FENYVESI
(News and Editorial Policy within the sole discretion of the editor)

Published by UCSJ: Union of Councils for Jews in the Former Soviet Union
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Volume 10, Number 2
January 15, 2010

BIGOTRY MONITOR

A Weekly Human Rights Newsletter on Antisemitism, Xenophobia, and Religious Persecution in the Former Communist World and Western Europe

EDITOR: CHARLES FENYVESI
(News and Editorial Policy within the sole discretion of the editor)

Published by UCSJ: Union of Councils for Jews in the Former Soviet Union
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Volume 10, Number 1
January 8, 2010

BIGOTRY MONITOR

A Weekly Human Rights Newsletter on Antisemitism, Xenophobia, and Religious Persecution in the Former Communist World and Western Europe

EDITOR: CHARLES FENYVESI
(News and Editorial Policy within the sole discretion of the editor)

Published by UCSJ: Union of Councils for Jews in the Former Soviet Union
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The year 2009, a year that marked a further decline for the cause of human rights in Russia, ended with a brutal police action against peaceful demonstrators and harsh statements by leaders of the Russian Orthodoxy, both deepening divisions between those in power and its critics.