Some 46 percent of the callers to a Russian television station said they believed that Jews commit ritual murders. The television anchor who posed the question during a nationwide broadcast said he was shocked by the high level of anti-Semitism among the 3,500 viewers who phoned in. The anchor, Andrei Cherkizov, is himself Jewish.
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