Russia's nationalists call for ban on Jewish groups

Russia's nationalist lawmakers have asked the prosecutor general to ban all Jewish organizations because of their "extremist" views, in a vitriolic call ahead of this week's 60th anniversary of the liberation of the Nazi death camp at Auschwitz.

It seems that every 6 months the rule of Putin in Russia seems to usher in the ills we thought we were rid of in 1989. Clearly we are not.