A Ukrainian Jew elected to his country’s Parliament earlier this month while sitting in jail was freed. Mikhail Brodsky, who had been imprisoned on charges of illegal property deals, earned immunity from prosecution as a result of his election. Brodsky and the newspaper he publishes have been frequent targets of anti-Semitic rhetoric.
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