There have been several alarming reports over the last few days about the rise in anti-Semitism in Russia, but none more alarming than this one, which reads like it was lifted directly from the Protocols of the Elders of Zion. Whilst it comes from real extremists, the fact that there are politicians on the spectrum who can spout such shocking anti-Semitic vitriol -- as Russia's chief rabbi says, openly appealing to people's basest instincts, and to one of Russia's primordial prejudices -- and get away without even an official condemnation, shows something frightening about Putin's Russia and just how far removed it is from a Western-style democracy. Nationalism is the name of the game -- and the Jews appear to be the scapegoats, yet again. Depressing.
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