Russia’s state-controlled television again attacked a Russian Jewish business tycoon, this time for using anti-Semitism as a “shield.” The attack by the ORT channel on Vladimir Goussinsky came at the end of a story on the controversy involving the chief rabbi of Russia, Adolph Shayevich, who claims he is being pressured to resign.
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