Moscow soccer fans charged with hate crime in groundbreaking case
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| Pavel Feldblyum, second from left, president of Moscow's Maccabi soccer club, with Alex Blavatnik, left, a vice president of Access Industries, one of the team's sponsors, and Moscow Mayor Yuri Luzhkov, right, in wool hat. |
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By Igor Serebryany
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Published: 09/04/2007
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In what may be a first for Russian hate-crimes prosecution, five soccer fans face two years in prison for yelling anti-Semitic slurs during a match.
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