Kyiv’s mayor Leonid Chernovetsky has ordered the closure of kiosks in the Ukrainian capital that sell anti-Semitic literature. Chernovetsky said that his city was going to remove the ‘illegally installed kiosks’ selling anti-Semitic pamphlets and periodicals published by MAUP, a private Kyiv university with a history of anti-Semitism.
MAUP's bookstall, not far from the Babi Yar ravine where tens of thousands of Jews were murdered by the Nazis, was removed 30 May despite protests by university representatives. MAUP publishes a wide spectrum of anti-Zionist, anti-Israeli and anti-Semitic articles and books by Ukrainian and foreign authors. Jewish leaders in Ukraine have long criticized Ukrainian authorities for not doing enough to curtail anti-Jewish hate propaganda at the university.
Source: World Jewish Congress
2 comments:
Kyiv sounds better.
Actually, I never use Kiev myself. But that piece of news was recopied from the World Jewish Congress web-site, and I just didn't introduce changes into article. Ok, I'll do that :)
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