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April 2, 2001
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Some 10,000 people showed up at a demonstration in Moscow to protest the government’s attempts to muzzle Russia’s only independent TV station, owned by media tycoon and Jewish leader Vladimir Goussinsky. Dozens of counterdemonstrators carried anti-Semitic signs such as, “Throw the Zhid’s TV Into the Garbage Can.”

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