MOSCOW, March 6 (RIA Novosti) - A Moscow University law student has been sentenced to 150 hours of community service for sending an anti-Semitic SMS message to a live television program dedicated to Victory in Europe day.
According to local prosecutors, Andrei Kachanov, 22, sent an SMS humiliating the national dignity of Jews and non-Russians and calling for extremist actions against them to a live television program of the Radonezhye broadcasting company in Sergiyev Posad, in the Moscow Region, May 9, 2006.
The student was found guilty of provoking hatred and discrimination against a religious group through the media.
