MOSCOW — In its 2013 “Nations in Transit” report, the democracy and human rights watchdog found that leaders of Eurasian countries from Russia and Ukraine to Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan are “strik[ing] more vigorously at perceived adversaries” in response to the recent wave of political turmoil in the Middle East. 

Laszlo Csatary had topped the most-wanted list of the Simon Wiesenthal Center, the Los Angles-based human rights organization named for the Holocaust survivor who spearheaded global efforts to hunt down Nazi fugitives after the war.