Obscene and anti-Semitic slogans were spray-painted over a mural of Soviet dissident and Nobel laureate Andrei Sakharov at a Moscow human rights museum. The 16-by-10-foot mural, in a square outside the Sakharov Museum, was vandalized May 30, director Yuri Samodurov told The Associated Press.
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