Vandals desecrated six Jewish graves at a cemetery in Siberia. A local prosecutor said the attack in Tomsk, the latest in a series of incidents in Russia involving Jewish targets, was discovered Sunday, shortly before Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak began his visit to Moscow.
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