The director and founder of a Moscow Jewish museum was shot and seriously injured outside the institution by an unidentified assailant on Thursday.
Sergei Ustinov, a writer and businessman who
is a prominent member of Moscow’s Jewish community and who also serves
as vice president of the Russian Jewish Congress, was shot in his car by
a man who promptly fled the scene. He was evacuated to a hospital in the Russian capital.
Police said they were investigating several possible motives for the crime, including a business dispute and anti-Semitism.
Following the attack, the RJC called on Russian authorities to give
special attention to the crime due to its possible anti-Semitic roots.
Ethnic hatred, the group said, threatened “the very foundations” of the
country. More.
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