A member of a radical Russian leftist party was arrested in connection with an attack on a Jewish center. According to a police report that was publicized by the Russian media, a college student who was a member of the National Bolshevik Party was arrested last week in connection with the April 22 attack, in which eight drunken youths stormed into the Jewish facility in the eastern Russian city of Ulyanovsk.
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