(JTA) — A separatist leader from Ukraine made anti-Semitic statements at a public address, the Euro-Asian Jewish Congress said.
Igor Plotnitsky, head of the breakaway, Russian-backed region of Lugansk in eastern Ukraine, during a lecture in Russia last week linked Ukrainian Jews to the revolution that last year swept from power the country’s previous government amid allegations of corruption and subservience to Russia.
In his June 16 speech at N.A. Nekrasov Kostroma State University in the town of Kirovsk, located 210 miles north of Moscow, Plotnitsky said the popular name of that revolution, “Euro-Maidan” — or “Evro-Maidan” in Ukrainian and Russian – …read more
Source: JTA
