Dmitry Rogozin refused to condemn anti-Semites

On June 28, 2005, at a press conference in the Interfax news agency, the leader of the Rodina party, Dmitry Rogozin, actually refused to condemn his party colleagues who signed an anti-Semitic appeal to the Prosecutor General's Office in January 2005. When asked by one of the journalists whether the “signatories” would be expelled from the party, Rogozin replied: “the party has nothing to do with the letter, this is a personal matter of the faction members.”

Rogozin's reaction is especially significant in the context of the fact that in March 2005, at a conference organized by the St. Petersburg regional branch of Rodina, the “letter 500” was officially approved .

Rogozin himself believes that on the eve of the 2007 elections, “a slander campaign began against the party,” referring to the protests of Jewish organizations in Russia and Europe against the party’s entry into the Socialist International and attempts to make 14 “signatory” deputies “banned” from entering the Schengen countries.

The leader of Rodina commented on this situation as follows: “We are not anti-Semites... We stand for overcoming interethnic squabbles, and they raise the wave with which they are fighting, but which can then cover them too. Labeling in our multinational the country is extremely dangerous."

Let us recall that in a similar situation, the nationalist statements of SCM-sheep P. Miloserdov at a recent picket at the “Georgian” school were condemned on the official website of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation.

Sources

• Dmitry Rogozin got into trouble // RK "Mayak". 2005. June 29.
• Gordeeva E. “Motherland” is in danger // Time of News. 2005. June 29.
• Rogozin refused to condemn his anti-Semitic colleagues // Polit.ru. 2005. June 28.