The Jewish community of Kaliningrad, Russia, was told to pay for the investigation of alleged unlawful dissemination of anti-Semitic literature. In response to a complaint filed by the Jewish community with the city’s prosecutor regarding the newspaper Kaliningradskaya Iskra and its alleged distribution of anti-Semitic material, the prosecutor’s office replied that the Jewish community would need to pay a government expert roughly $2,000 for an investigation to be carried out, the Union of Councils for Jews in the Former Soviet Union reported.
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