RUSSIA: MOSCOW: STATE ENDORSED ANTISEMITISM IS A THING OF THE PAST

English, Nat When the USSR collapsed in 1991 Soviet Jews, for years the object of stateapproved antiSemitism, fled the country in search of a better life in Israel. Today, the Jewish exodus from Russia has slumped by more than half. Many Jews are opting to stay on as their culture begins to flourish in the relative freedom of the new Russia. Although ingrained antiSemitism lives on among fringe political parties, Russia s Jews feel freer than they have for centuries. This is the face of Russian