A few days after someone painted a swastika on the door of the Jewish community's leader apartment in Ivanovo, Russia, vandals daubed swastikas on a wall facing the Jewish community center in the nearby town of Kineshma, according to a July 18, 2008 report by the Regnum news agency. Swastikas left by a previous act of vandalism had just been painted over the day before. The audacity of the vandals led Ervin Kirshteyn, whose own home was recently targeted, to state that, "regional law enforcement agencies either don't want to or are unable to fight against fascism." In addition, according to the Regnum report, Mr. Kirshteyn has officially left the Ivanovo Assembly of the Peoples of Russia, a body comprising leaders of various minority communities, after its members refused to endorse a condemnation of fascism and instead "took what amounted to an unfriendly position towards the city's Jewish community."

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