A Russian court handed a two-and-a-half-year prison sentence to a young man for writing anti-Semitic graffiti on a residential building, JTA reported Friday.
A district court in the city of Kurgan, near Russia’s border with Kazakhstan, earlier this week upheld the unusually-harsh sentence, which the 23-year-old man received from a lower court last year.
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