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Tombstones in a Jewish cemetery in St. Petersburg were vandalized. Russian
Jewish media reported that vandals painted swastikas and extremist
graffiti on seven headstones in a graveyard that previously has seen some of the worst acts of
cemetery vandalism in recent years. Police are investigating the incident.
In a separate incident, a swastika and the word “kikes” were painted on a Holocaust memorial inside a local Jewish cemetery in the city of
Kaliningrad in western Russia, the Web site jewish.ru reported.
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