Anti-Semitic speeches by the mayor of Norilsk

On January 26, 2004, the mayor of Norilsk, Valery Melnikov, at a press conference with journalists, scolded one of the participants with the words that he was behaving "like a Jew . "

The local press believes that such statements are due to the mayor's anti-Semitic sentiments, and as an argument they report that Valery Melnikov did not offer any place in his team to Lazar Izrailevich Aleksandrovich, the main sponsor of his election campaign. Unverified information was published in the media of Norilsk that the mayor handed over to the Internal Affairs Directorate documents compromising the Norilsk oligarch.

Sources

• The new mayor of Norilsk opened a hunt for Jews. While he beats his own, so that strangers are afraid // Independent Information Agency (Krasnoyarsk). 2004. January 26