Russian Student Sentenced For Sending Anti-Semitic Text Messages

In Russia last Monday, a Moscow court sentenced a 22-year old law student to 150 hours of public service for sending anti-Semitic text messages that were broadcast by a local television station last May as part of a broadcast celebrating Victory Day. UCSJ reported on Friday that Moscow's Regional Prosecutor has labelled the messages "an affront to the national dignity of representatives of the Jewish ethnicity and non-Russians as a whole."