The word pogrom literally means "riot" in Russian. Commonly, the term describes the semi-official persecution of Jews in the Russian Empire that began in the early 1880s. With their situation in ...
the Black Hundredists spread vicious propaganda and incited pogroms in the Russian Empire. Ironically, though, the Black Hundredists came out strongly against the existence of an independent ...
The sites have not appeared to have been deliberately targeted but have fallen victim to indiscriminate shelling as part of Russia’s shifting campaign to control regions of Ukraine. The pogrom ...