The Federation of Russian Jewish Communities has called on regional authorities to increase security at synagogues and other facilities belonging to the Jewish community.

“In recent months, we have witnessed a whole series of attacks on synagogues. I am speaking about incidents in Khabarovsk, Astrakhan, Vladivostok and Surgut, not counting insults scribbled on fences and walls in many towns in Russia,” the federation’s spokesman Boruh Gorin told Interfax.

Gorin called on local authorities to step up security at facilities owned by the Jewish community to prevent such incidents in the future.