Kiev Mayor Trying To End Distribution of Antisemitic Literature

In the Ukraine, the mayor of Kiev, Leonid Chernovetsky, is trying to restrict the activities of the Interregional Academy of Personnel Management (MAUP), a private university which has become a major distributor of antisemitic literature. UCSJ reported on Friday that the the mayor has asked Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovich to cut off the government financial support that goes to MAUP. Meanwhile the mayor is trying other tactics to close down some 30 MAUP kiosks that operate in Kiev and, among other things, sell copies of The Protocols of the Elders of Zion. Another report suggests that MAUP is distributing Holocaust denial literature near Babi Yar, the site of a major Nazi massacre of Jews.