Dokument #1046554
IRB – Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada (Autor)
There are no reports indicating that employees at the Synagogue in Samara were threatened and/or beaten by skinheads in May 1998 in the sources consulted by the Research Directorate.
This Response was prepared after researching publicly accessible information currently available to the Research Directorate within time constraints. This Response is not, and does not purport to be, conclusive as to the merit of any particular claim to refugee status or asylum. Please find below the list of sources consulted in researching this Information Request.
Sources Consulted
IRB Databases
Lexis/Nexis
Union of Councils for Soviet Jews
(UCSJ). December 1999. Antisemitism, Xenophobia and Religious
Persecution in Russia's Regions 1998-1999. Washington, DC:
UCSJ.
One oral source did not respond within
the time constraints.
Internet sites including:
Amnesty International (AI)
Anti-Defamation League (ADL)
Anti-Fascist Action
The Federation of Jewish Communities of
the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS)
Freedom House
Human Rights Watch (HRW)
Institute for Jewish Policy Research
International Helsinki Federation for
Human Rights (IHF-HR)
Izvestiya Samara
Keesing's
Kommersant v Samare
Komsomolskaya Pravda v Samare
National Conference on Soviet Jewry
(NCSJ)
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty
(RFE/RL)
Samara.ru (Samarskii informatsionnyi
portal)
The Stephen Roth Institute for the Study
of Contemporary Anti-Semitism and Racism at Tel Aviv University
The Vidal Sassoon International Center
for the Study of Antisemitism, The Hebrew University of
Jerusalem
World News Connection (WNC)