The editor of a fringe anti-Semitic newspaper in northwestern Russia was sentenced to more than two years in prison for inciting ethnic hatred. Russian news agencies reported that a court in Novgorod ruled last week that Pavel Ivanov, editor of Russkoe Veche, also was guilty of inciting extremist activity through his newspaper.
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