Neo-Nazis may have been responsible for bomb blasts Saturday night near two Moscow shuls, according to Russia’s interior minister, Sergei Stepashin. He also hinted Sunday that the country’s largest and best-organized far-right organization, Russian National Unity, may have been responsible. Meanwhile, the executive vice president of the Russian Jewish Congress, Alexander Osovtsov, put the blame on Communist extremists, linking the blasts to May Day protests staged Saturday.
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