The chairman of the Jewish Agency for Israel denounced the recent murder of a liberal member of the Russian Parliament. Avraham Burg said he hoped the slaying of Galina Starovoitova was not “committed on political and anti-Semitic grounds.” While the motive for her murder is not clear, Starovoitova recently led a campaign to censure a Communist lawmaker, Gen. Albert Makashov, for repeated anti-Semitic remarks.
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