A Russian governmental committee warned a television station in St. Petersburg that it is violating a law that prohibits the mass media there from inciting ethnic, religious and racial strife, the St. Petersburg Times reported. The move by the State Mass Media Committee came after the channel’s popular talk show hosted a leader of an overtly anti-Semitic organization, who delivered his group’s call for “ethnic purges” on the air.
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