Ukraine. The organizer of an attack on the Kiev Central synagogue April 13 this year was arrested in Poltava. The operation was held jointly with the officials of Kiev city main criminal investigation department of MIA and Pechersk district administration of MIA headquarters of the capital. The detainees were taken to Kiev as the capital militia department holds the inquiry.

We'll remind that the evening of April 13, 2002 in Kiev a group of youngsters attacked the Central Synagogue in the Shota Rustaveli str., 13. On the pogrom's ground the Pechersk district militia administration in Kiev initiated criminal proceedings in accordance with article 296 of Criminal Code of Ukraine (malicious hooliganism committed by a group of people). Some persons have already been detained.

Russia. A mass action "Clean city" on annihilating anti-Semitic and nationalistic leaflets is to begin in the nearest time in Voronezh. 22 organizations have already expressed their willingness to participate in the action, which will continue for approximately a month. The problem of anti-Semitism for Voronezh, where the positions of nationalistic organizations are traditionally strong, is extremely urgent. In particular, placards with a "Death to Yids" sign and explosive device plaster casts were found here in June.

Brazil. A new head of the Rio-de-Janeiro Jewish community promised to establish a special "hot" phone line the residents would use for 24 hours to inform about anti-Semitic incidents. Ozias Vurman, an elected head of the Jewish community, stated the hot line would also perform the function of a Jewish informational directory. Vurman also promised to improve the condition of synagogues in Rio-de-Janeiro, the city nearly 40 thousand Jews live in.

SAR. A seminar organized by the Israeli fund "Keren Kha-Kaemet" in Johannesburg was interrupted after the pro-Arab demonstrators rushed into the hall and caused a scandal. After a verbal skirmish the Arabs attempted to initiate a fight. But the local police threw them away. One of the participants of a hooligan action was a present in the jail lawyer of Maruan Barguti, the head of the "Fatkh" organization militarized wing accused of terrorism.

Czech Republic. An ancient Jewish cemetery was desecrated in Uzov, Czech Republic. Hundreds of gravestones have been crashed and stolen, informed a local TV-channel. The majority of graves, part of them of the XVII century, were desecrated. Local militia consider the gravestones were stolen in order to sell them to private collections.

Jewish Diaspora of Great Britain expressed its indignation at the fact that a famous British company gave the name of a nerve-paralytic gas to one of its cross-shoe models. This gas was used by Nazis to exterminate millions of Jews during the Holocaust.

Umbro, a leading sport organization, which clothes can be seen on the players of England's national soccer team, stated the consonance of the names "ZYKLON" (a cross-shoes model on sale since 1999) and poisonous gas Zyklon B is only an "unhappy coincidence", informs Reuters.

Zyklon B crystals were dissolved in gas chambers of the German camps - that was the way Nazis produced the gas to exterminate millions of Jews and representatives of other national minorities during the World War II.

"We are sure the name of cross-shoes doesn't mean any offence", - stated the press secretary of Umbro Nick Kruk. "Now we investigate what has happened", - he said. The Umbro Zyklon Junior cross-shoes were advertised on the "Megasports" British site of sport goods August 29. Their price was 30 US dollars. A box on the photo had a depiction of white cross-shoes with a big Umbro emblem.

Kruk stated the model would be renamed or totally withdrawn from sales. However, the press secretary was not sure whether already dispatched to shops models would be withdrawn, too.

"The name Zyklon is on the box, but not on cross-shoes, so the company is not going to take aside already sold goods", - he said.

The Simon Vizental center sharply opposed the name given to a new cross-shoes model by a well-known British sport enterprise Umbro.

"The use of such names associated with Holocaust is the offence to all its victims and survived witnesses of Nazi murderous deeds", - the center's declaration states. In its turn the representative of a sport company Nick Kruk said, "The company sincerely regrets the name of cross-shoes model has touched somebody's feelings".