A Russian businessman was reportedly fined $1,000 for selling an anti-Semitic film.
A court in a Russian town near the Belarusian and Ukranian borders fined Dmitry Kovalyov, owner of a store called Patriot, for urging his customers to buy the film “Russia With a Knife in Its Back: Jewish Fascism and the Genocide of the Russian People,” according to the Web site Jewish.ru.
Kovalyov was convicted of inciting ethnic hatred.
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