"Weekly magazine" responded to the "Trends" in the "NG Ex libris" of March 18, 2004 with a column by Galina Yuzefovich Book obsession .

Vyacheslav Likhachev Ukraine is facing the biggest anti-Semitism scandal since independence. Formally, the situation can be summed up in one sentence: on January 28, the newspaper Selskie Vesti was closed in court for publishing anti-Semitic materials. But there is a lot behind this phrase. First, the scale of the scandal often escapes foreign commentators.

On March 20, 2004, near the village of Barki, Odintsovo district, Moscow region, a group of skinheads aged 16-17 killed an Armenian citizen motivated by ethnic hatred. Teenagers beat a man to death and scrawled a fascist swastika on his back with a key. Teenagers identified themselves as members of the informal youth organization "Skinhead". Young people did not work and did not study, devoting themselves entirely to the "struggle" with the natives of the Caucasus.