The patriarch of the Russian Orthodox Church congratulated the editorial staff of Russkie Vestnik, a Russian Orthodox newspaper known to be openly anti- Semitic, on the 10th anniversary of its publication. Patriarch Alexey II thanked the newspaper, which has published articles about the Jewish “fifth column” and “the fascism of the Jewish bourgeoisie” in Russia, for upholding traditional Russian values.
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