Russian anti-Semitic editor convicted

The editor of an anti-Semitic newspaper in Russia was sentenced to a prison colony after being convicted of inciting ethnic and religious hatred.

Konstantin Dushenov, editor of Russ Pravoslavnaya (Orthodox Russia), was sentenced to three years in a prison colony and was forbidden from publishing for three years, according to a report by the Regnum news agency, UCSJ: Union of Councils for Jews in the Former Soviet Union reported.

Two other newspaper staff members received suspended sentences.

The men had distributed an anti-Semitic film called “Russia With a Knife in the Back,” which is on the federal list of banned extremist materials. — jta