Ban Sought for Nazi-Era School Book

The Public Chamber urged the Prosecutor General’s Office to ban an anti-Semitic publication favored by Adolf Hitler on Friday, just weeks after Moscow prosecutors found it to be of “historical and educational” value. The chamber’s secretary, Yevgeny Velikhov, asked Prosecutor General Yury Chaika to open an investigation into the “Protocols of the Elders of Zion,” the rights watchdog said on its web site. The book, first released in 1903 by a tsarist-era anti-Semitic newspaper, details […]