Word: ostashvili
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...judge read the verdict in the Moscow courtroom last week, the defendant erupted. "I'm ready to die for Russia," yelled Konstantin Smirnov- Ostashvili, 54, leader of a faction of Pamyat, the ultra-right, Russian nationalist movement. "It's all a lie!" Unfazed, the judge sentenced Smirnov-Ostashvili to two years of hard labor for shouting anti-Semitic threats at a meeting of liberal writers last January...
...remarkable that he had come to trial at all. Though a videotape made at the January session clearly showed the Pamyat leader shouting his diatribe against Jews through a megaphone, it was not until July -- and after pressure from liberal intellectuals -- that Smirnov-Ostashvili was charged with "inciting ethnic hatred" under a little-used article in the Russian Federation criminal code...
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