Ukraine to mark 65th V-Day anniversary as international holiday.

KIEV, April 17 (Itar-Tass) -- Ukraine will celebrate the 65th
anniversary of the victory over Nazi Germany in World War II as an
international holiday.
"It has no boundaries. May 9 is a day that consolidated the
Ukrainians. In that victory the ideas of humanism, mutual understanding
and joint international responsibility for peace gained the upper hand,"
Ukraine's deputy prime minister Vladimir Seminozhenko said after a meeting
devoted to preparations for Victory Day celebrations.
Delegations of foreign war veterans, who participated in the
liberation of Ukraine from Nazi occupation have been invited to Kiev on
the occasion.
"We have received confirmations from veterans' organizations in
Armenia, Belarus, Slovakia, Poland, Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia. A
decision if US veterans will participate is about to be made,"
Seminozhenko said. "The awareness it was one victory for all is capable of
making the modern world a safer place."

.Moscow police, journalists sign media security memorandum.

MOSCOW, April 17 (Itar-Tass) -- The chief of the Moscow police
department's public relations office, Viktor Biryukov, and the chairman of
the Moscow Journalists' Union, Pavel Gusev, on Friday signed a memorandum
on the security of journalists in covering rallies and other crowded
events in the Russian capital.
The memorandum states clearly the principles of cooperation by the
mass media and the law enforcers. The Moscow police will issue "security
cards" to journalists covering rallies and other public events in Moscow.
The cards will have special numbers and be registered in a special log in
electronic or printed form.
"Each periodical may have an unlimited number of such cards," Gusev
said. "The cards will serve as journalists' identification tags in a
crowd."
Also, he advised the media to have special vests, agreed with the
Journalists' Union. Such vests of the standard color will carry the
marking MEDIA.
The absence of the security card is not a reason to prevent a
journalists from performing professional duties, though, on the condition
the journalist carries a proper ID, and foreign media, the Foreign
Ministry's accreditation card and a personal ID.
The chief of the Moscow police, Major-General Vladimir Kolokoltsev,
said that "full understanding had been achieved between the journalists
and the police."
He said that the safety of the media in Moscow was an extremely
complex task.
"We are all in the same boat and we are moving in the same direction,"
Kolokoltsev said. "I am certain that the Moscow police would do everything
in their powers to maintain the security of journalists covering public
events and street processions."

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