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A Vladivostok synagogue was desecrated on Thursday by unidentified people who daubed it with paint, the Jewish News Agency Newspaper reported Thursday.

The vandals wrote an anti-Semitic slogan and drew a fascist symbol on the building’s door and walls, the agency said.

According to Vladivostok Synagogue’s Rabbi Israel Silbershtein, the xenophobic act may have been performed by local radical nationalists or skinheads and be related to a meeting they held in the city’s downtown area five days ago, the Jewish News Agency www.aen.ru said.

The synagogue’s administration is preparing statements to the police and the city’s administration.

According to a spokesman for Russia’s Association of Jewish Communities Borukh Gorin, this has been the third case of anti-Semitic acts in Russia lately. On October 23, anti-Semitic slogans were placed along the road near Primorye’s town of Nakhodka. In late September, the unidentified people threw stones and broke windows of the local synagogue, the Jewish News agency said.