JEWISH CEMETERY DEFACED IN IRKUTSK.

Vandals have damaged or destroyed over one hundred headstones at a Jewish cemetery in the Siberian city of Irkutsk. This was the third time in six months that Irkutsk’s Jewish graveyard had been attacked. Gravestones were spray-painted last December, while and swastikas were painted on ten headstones in March. (Itar-Tass, AP, May 13)

THE UKRAINE TO MATCH RUSSIAN CRUISER IN THE BLACK SEA.