Three neo-Nazi youths were sentenced to prison in the breakaway Transdniester Republic for a series of attacks on the Tiraspol Jewish community, according to a May 29, 2003 report by RIA-Novosti. One skinhead was sentenced to six years in prison, while his two comrades got three years each for bombing a Tiraspol synagogue on April 15 and July 24, 2001. They were also charged with the desecration of a Jewish cemetery that year. In addition to hooliganism and illegal weapons possession, the three were charged with inciting ethnic hatred. Their motives apparently were to “announce that skinheads exist in Tiraspol.”

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