DATE:
January 9, 2006
The president of Belarus-Aleksandr Lukashenko-has given a medal to an antisemitic ideologue who serves as the editor of his presidential administration's newsletter, according to a January 6, 2006 report by the opposition news site Kharitiya 97. President Lukashenko reportedly awarded Eduard Skobelev a prize for "spiritual development" despite complaints by Jewish activists last month that his latest work "Stalin's Testament" contains personal attacks against Belarusian Jewish leaders. Mr. Skobelev has a long reputation for promoting antisemitism-in 1990, he allegedly proposed the use of guns to solve the "Jewish problem" and more recently he argued that "The Protocols of the Elders of Zion" was a genuine document.
In December 2005, another long-time presidential aide, Viktor Kuchinsky, reportedly called for the violent expulsion of migrants from the Caucasus.
Source:
http://www.fsumonitor.com/stories/010906Belarus.shtml
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