48. An article claiming the murder of three Russian monks at Easter 1993 as a Jewish ritual murder was printed in Pravda on 5 May 1993. Metropolitan Ioan repeatedly published articles in Sovetskaia Rossiia, in which he used anti-Jewish stereotypes, such as Jews nailing Christ to the cross -- Sovetskaia Rossiia, 22 March 1994, p. 4. Valentin Prusakov's article “All Around Us Nothing but Jews,” was printed in Pravda weekly. Valentin Prusakov, “Krugom odni evrei, Pravda 5, 22 Nov. 1996, p. 12. Prusakov is the author of a book on Hitler, bearing the title The Occult Messiah and His Kingdom, printed by a fascist publisher. Further, in 1991 Prusakov was co-editor of what was at that time the most extreme anti-Semitic journal in Russia, Russkoe voskresenie. As regards the influence of newspapers close to the KPRF, their circulation is certainly comparable to that of well- known newspapers of the democratic camp. Pravda 5 has a circulation of 270,000 and Sovetskaia Rossiia 250,000, compared with newspapers such as Izvestiia, 450,000, and Moskovskie novosti, only 120,000.
-- Michael Pugliese