An extremist bloc in Russia launched its televised election campaign with anti- Semitic references. The ads by the Spas bloc featured party representatives saying that if elected to Parliament they would push for the reintroduction of capital punishment to punish “all those Gaidars and Chubaises, who brought about the present miserable state of Russia.” Yegor Gaidar and Anatoly Chubais, the former prime minister and deputy prime minister, are widely believed to have Jewish roots.
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