Some 1,000 demonstrators attended an extremist rally in Moscow. Speakers at Tuesday’s rally said Russian President Vladimir Putin is surrounded by a “Zionist clan,” according to the Union of Councils for Jews in the Former Soviet Union. The rally was led by two Russian politicians known for their anti-Semitic statements, Viktor Ilyukhin and Gen. Albert Makashov.
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