Imagine if 5,000 leading American personalities signed a similiar letter calling for the banning of groups such as the criminal organization known as the ADL. Russians still consider themselves masters of their own house-JC
Russian chess master believes in Russia
Boris Spassky, the former chess world champion, has caused uproar in Russia by signing a petition that demands the country's state prosecutor bans a number of Jewish organisations.
Spassky was among 5,000 Russians who put their name to a letter calling for a ban on all religious and national groups acting on the principles of the Shulchan Aruch, a repository of Jewish law originally written in the 1560s.
Letter of 5,000 engrages Jewish groups