A newly formed State "Party for a Just Russia" (or "A Just Russia") with Sergey Mironov, the Russian Senate Chairman as a leader, seems to achieve it's originality through becoming a party with a slight smell of xenophobia and anti-Semitism. Perhaps, this will serve as a difference between "A Just Russia" and the "United Russia" for many of the voters.
On February, 14, 2007, Dmitry Kuzmin, the mayor of Stavropol, who is the "Party for a Just Russia" leader in Stavropol Region, was accused by the "United Russia" MPs of inciting ethnic hatred and extremism. The cause for that was one of his speeches in which he afforded himself to underline ethnic affiliation of the people who had made a provocation during a party event two days before.
On February, 16, in Samara, several people came to the local television studio to picket it. They were holding placards saying "There is no place for a Tatar on the Russian TV" and "A Just Russia will set TV channel 'Samara' free of the Tatar yoke". The protest was aimed against the TV channel chief director Fedor Aliev, an ethnic Tatar.
On the same day an interview with Jury Lopusov, the leader of the movement "Pobeda" ("Victory") - the youth wing of the party - was published on the official website of "A Just Russia" Party. His words contain hidden, but exact quotations from the Hitler's "Mein Kampf". Several sentences were literary copied and pasted from this book.
And last, but not least, Oleg Pashchenko, the editor-in-chief of "Krasnoyarskaya gazeta", a newspaper which regularly publishes anti-Semitic articles, has nominated himself to the Krasnoyarsk Parliament as a deputy from "A Just Russia" Party.


