The demonstrators were members of the Pamyat Society. a group of rightwing nationalists who have lined up behind the conservative wing of the Communist Party in opposing change. Arkady Kisin. who traveled to the conference from Dniepropetrovsk in the Ukraine. said narasament is definitely on the rise against the 70.000 Jews in that populous Soviet republic. Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachevs glasnost has helped ease emigration. he said. but largely because that is an issue tied to Soviet foreign policy. The purely domestic aspects of antiSemitism remain unaffected. he said. His audience. in a makeshift Jewish museum and library tucked away in two rooms of a ninthfloor apartment in Moscow. murmured and nodded assent.
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