The arrest of a Russian oil baron with Jewish roots had nothing to do with anti-Semitism, a leading Russian cleric said. Metropolitan Kyrill made his comments regarding Mikhail Khodorkovsky at a news conference in New York on Wednesday sponsored by the Appeal of Conscience Foundation.
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