Anti-Semitic leaflets are being distributed in the northern Caucasus on the eve of elections to a local state council, according to the Union of Councils for Soviet Jews. The anonymous leaflets, printed against the background of a huge Magen David, stress the alleged Jewish roots of several candidates to the State Council, accusing them of connections to Russian Jewish tycoon Vladimir Goussinsky and other members of the “Russian Jewish elite.”
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