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St. Petersburg. Chairman of St.Petersburg Youth Union YABLOKO V. Drugov forwarded
an open letter to the head of the Oktyabrskaya Rail Road G. Komarov.
The press service of the Youth Union YABLOKO informed ABN (www.abnews.ru)
about the increasing frequency of manifestations of everyday nationalism
and their impact on the work of the department. This has led the
activists of the union to turn to G. Komarov. In particular, on
the way to St. Petersburg the walls of garages and buildings opposite
the railroad are covered with insulting nationalist graffiti and
pictures of swastikas. This is very visible from trains leaving
Moscow at the segment of Kolpino-Obukhovo - Moscow Railway Station
(St. Petersburg): hundreds and thousands of St. Petersburg residents
and guests of the city who travel daily along this segment of
the railroad are confronted by such graffiti in the "cultural
capital of Russia". The St. Petersburg Youth Union YABLOKO
has offered to help remove this graffiti. A letter from the union
states: "We propose a joint action of Youth Union YABLOKO
and the services of the Oktyabrskaya Rail Road under the banner
"Railroad Without Insulting Graffiti". As part of this
action we could paint over and remove this graffiti. We are also
greatly concerned about the desecration at Preobrazhenskoye cemetery
regarding Jewish graves.” The letter, signed by Rabbi H.
Burshtein and Chairman of the Judaic Community M. Freidzon, refers
to the elimination of more than 40 graves by the Oktyabrskaya
Rail Road on June 26-27, 2002 "as part of steps to expand
the road,." V. Drugov concludes. “We hope that the
work at the cemetery will be stopped and that the "individuals
guilty of blasphemy will be duly punished."
See also:
YABLOKO
Against Extremism
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