MOSCOW, January 12 (RIA Novosti) - The Federation of Jewish Communities of Russia (FEOR) and Moscow's Main Interior Department decided to set up a working group to monitor the propaganda of anti-Semitism and xenophobia and coordinate efforts against neo-Nazism, a FEOR spokesman said Thursday.
The move follows Wednesday's knife attack in a Moscow synagogue that left eight people injured.
"We have decided to establish a working group to monitor anti-Semitic publications, mainly in the press, electronic media and on the Internet," Borukh Gorin said after a meeting between Russia's Chief Rabbi Berl Lazar and Vladimir Pronin, head of Moscow's Main Interior Department.
Twenty-year old Muscovite Alexander Koptsev was reported to have entered a synagogue in central Moscow and stabbed eight people with a hunting knife, leaving four in a serious state. The victims included three foreigners - an American, an Israeli and a Tajik citizen. Koptsev has been charged with attempted murder, causing premeditated bodily harm, and inciting racial or religious discord.
