A court in the Russian city of Novosibirsk shut down a local newspaper that repeatedly published anti-Semitic articles, Interfax reported. An aide to the regional prosecutor who brought the case against the Russkaya Sibir newspaper described the articles as extremist and ruled last week that the publication abused press freedom.
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