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Article: Russian officials investigate Jewish cemetery desecration
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- December 4, 1996
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Lev Krichevsky
Jewish Telegraphic Agency
12-04-1996
Russian officials investigate Jewish cemetery desecration.
By Lev Krichevsky
MOSCOW, Dec. 3 (JTA) -- For the first time, Russian federal officials are launching an investigation into the desecration of a Jewish cemetery.
The office of Russia's Prosecutor General initiated a criminal investigation after 16 graves were destroyed last week in the Jewish cemetery of Saratov, located some 450 miles southeast of Moscow.
The move came in response to a letter by Vladimir Goussinsky, president of the Russian Jewish Congress, who urged the prosecutor general to investigate the crime and to take measures to prevent such incidents in the future.
Several ...