Russia: Shots fired at new synagogue

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Via Interfax:

A synagogue currently under construction in the city of Arkhangelsk has been attacked by vandals armed with air guns, who also smashed nine windows and wrote anti-Semitic inscriptions on the building.

The incident occurred in the early hours of April 8 when Jews were celebrating the Passover, a spokesperson for the Federation of Jewish Communities of Russia (FJCR) said on Thursday.

"Shortly after the recent desecration of a monument of the Holocaust victims in Volgograd, with just weeks to go until the celebration of the 70th anniversary of the Victory, that very Victory to which the whole country was heading with such torment and torture in the fight against the Nazi, home-grown xenophobes have again shown their faces," FJCR President Alexander Boroda was quoted as saying.