Anti-Semitic graffiti in a Ukrainian city may be a political provocation aimed at discrediting presidential challenger Viktor Yuschenko. Slogans reading “Kikes get out of here!” and “Yes, Yuschenko!” were spray-painted over several buildings and the World War II memorial in the city of Chernigov early this week, days before Sunday’s presidential election.
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