Despite recent electoral gains by Ukraine’s far right, extremists will not “highjack government priorities” on encouraging Ukrainian Jewish life, Ukraine’s premier reportedly said.
In a meeting on Nov. 20, Premier Mykola Azarov told the country’s chief rabbi, Yaacov Bleich, “not to be alarmed” by the entry of the far-right Svoboda party into parliament in last month’s general election, according to a statement by the Conference of European Rabbis, an umbrella group.
