Russian soccer fans chanted anti-Semitic slogans and displayed an anti-Semitic poster during a championship game in the city of Yaroslavl. Some fans also shouted anti-Semitic slurs against Oleg Romantsev, the former head coach of the Russian national soccer team, which turned in a poor performance at the recent World Cup. Romantsev is not Jewish.
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