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Russian Academy of National Economy and Public Administration under the President of the Russian Federation. (Wikimedia Commons)

Russian university fires lecturer who denied Holocaust

“Six million dead Jews are a fiction.” international relations expert Vladimir Matveyev said during a teacher training session about Auschwitz.

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Snow falls on a Hanukkah Menorah made of ice in Tomsk, Russia on Dec. 8, 2020. (Levy Kaminetsky)

A Siberian synagogue has a 10-foot menorah made of ice

Temperatures in Tomsk, which has a world-famous ice park, dip below the freezing point in September and do not rise again before the end of March.

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6 prominent Holocaust survivors have died in Europe over the past month

Their passing has been buried under the constant stream of breaking political and COVID-19 news.

A view of a prison colony in the village of Shamkhal, Russia on 23 September, 2020. (Musa Salgereyev/TASS via Getty Images)

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Jewish prisoner in Russian penal colony goes on hunger strike to get Shabbat off

Staged photos of Aryeh Leib Tkatch of Krasnodar, Russia in which he appears to have been killed. (The Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation)

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Russian authorities stage rabbi’s death to nab alleged terrorists who reportedly wanted him dead

A woman from the Bulgarian Jewish community attends a commemoration ceremony at Sofia's synagogue on March 10, 2013 (Dimitar Dilkoff/AFP via Getty Images)

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Coronavirus crisis is testing the resilience of Europe’s small Jewish communities

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Holocaust monuments vandalized in Russia and Romania

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Russia has a full-time surgeon whose only job is circumcising Jewish men

Yael Ilinsky votes for a second time at the Russian consulate in Haifa, Israel in June 2020. (Yael Ilinsky/Facebook)

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Israeli citizen faces criminal charges for voting 3 times in Russian referendum

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Yad Vashem apologizes for ‘unfortunate errors’ in films screened at Auschwitz commemoration

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