RUSSIA TODAY: The Russian Public Chamber is pushing to ban the anti-Semitic Protocols of the Elders of Zion, a controversial book which is considered to be one of ideological justification of the Holocaust.Secretary of the Public Chamber academician Evgeny Velikhov sent a formal request to the Prosecutor General Yury Chaika to acknowledge the book as extremist literature aimed at igniting inter-ethnic and religious hatred.
Earlier, a group of prominent historians filed a complaint to the prosecutor’s office of Moscow’s northern district demanding to impose a ban on the book. However, the body declined it citing the results of a certain psychological expertise.
Velikhov asked the Prosecutor General’s Office to check why, in response to calls from the public, the prosecutor’s office of Moscow’s northern district concluded that Protocols “are of political and educational character” and “do not contain information urging for action against other nationalities.” » | Friday, May 13, 2011
