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A Ukraine court has sentenced three Odessa men to two-year prison terms for vandalizing a Jewish cemetery.

The Malinovsky District Court of Odessa handed down the sentences last Friday, the UNIAN news service reported.

A 20-year-old college student inspired by neo-Nazi literature and two of his friends were found guilty of painting swastikas and anti-Semitic slogans on 302 gravestones and a Holocaust memorial.

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