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ITAR-TASS overnight news cycle for August 5-4.
Remembrance service for Solzhenitsyn held in Washington cathedral.
WASHINGTON, August 5 (Itar-Tass) - Clerics and laymen united in the congregation of the Russian Orthodox metropolitan cathedral of St John the Baptist in Washington have held a remembrance service for the late Nobel Prize winning writer Alexander Solzhenitsyn, who died in Moscow Sunday night at the age of 90.
"It's a great loss for us," archpriest Viktor Potapov, the father
superior of the cathedral told Itar-Tass. "I personally knew Alexander
Isayevich /Solzhenitsyn's patronymic - Itar-Tass/ and members of his
family and I visited him twice in his house in Vermont and on several more occasions in his office in Moscow."
To say that Solzhenitsyn was a great writer and thinker means to say just nothing, the Reverend Potapov said in his sermon during the service that was attended by numerous members of other Churches and parishes.
He indicated that the late writer was more like a prophet, whose
predictions have either come true already or continue coming true right in front of our eyes.
The Rev Potapov recalled that in 1974, soon after the expulsion from the USSR, Solzhenitsyn addressed the 3rd all-Abroad Council of the Russian Orthodox Church outside of Russia, urging the Church hierarchs in the West and worldwide to pass milder judgments on the clerics inside the Soviet Union for compromises with the authorities and to treat the Russian Orthodox Church inside Russia with more benevolence, brotherly love and understanding of the hardships it had had to live through.
In some sense, Solzhenitsyn foreran the reunification process inside the Russian Church 30 years before its finalization, the Rev Potapov said.
Three earthquakes registered in Sakhalin, Kurile Islands since Monday
morning.
YUZHNO-SAKHALINSK, August 5 (Itar-Tass) - A total of three earthquakes have been registered in Sakhalin and the Kurile Islands since Monday morning, officials at the Far-Eastern Regional Center of the Russian Ministry for Emergency Situations and Civil Defense told Itar-Tass.
The magnitude of the most powerful quake totaled 6.1 points on the
open-ended Richter scale.
This quake occurred at 04:42 GMT Monday in the Pacific Ocean 51
kilometers away from the island of Paramushir. Its seismic focus was
located at a depth of 80 kilometers under the ocean's floor.
Shocks measurering up to 4.0 points were felt in the town of
Severo-Kurilsk. People in the Kamchatka territory's capital
Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky and in the town of Ozerkovsky felt shocks ranging from 2.0 points to 3,0 points.
A weak earthquake occurred on the same day in are 64 kilometers away from Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk, the administrative center of the insular Sakhalin region. A shock 2.0 points strong was felt in the village of Kostromskoye.
In the small hours of Tuesday morning, an earthquake totaling 4.1
points occurred in the Pacific to the east of the Kuriles. It did not have any aftereffects.
Ecuadorian naval ship arrives on first-ever visit to Vladivostok.
VLADIVOSTOK, August 5 (Itar-Tass) - An Ecuadorian naval ship has
arrived the first-ever visit to the Russian Pacific naval base of
Vladivostok, officials at the press service of Russia's Pacific Fleet told Itar-Tass.
Ecuadorian seamen will stay here through August 10.
Schoolship Guayas is commanded by Captain 1st Rank Freddy Garcia Colla and has a 120-strong crew including 16 officers and 80 naval cadets.
Taking part in this trip is Ecuador's ambassador extraordinary and
plenipotentiary to Russia, Patricio Alberto Chavez Savala.
In the course of the visit, the Ecuadorian seamen will be received by top commanders of the Pacific Fleet and Vladivostok city mayor.
The hosts will organize bus tours of the city's sights for them and a wide range of informal meetings with Russian naval officers and cadets.
The schoolship's crew will lay flowers at the Pacific Fleet's Glory Memorial and will receive Russian counterparts aboard their ship.
The crew of the big antisubmarine ship Admiral Tributz under the
command of Captain 2nd Rank Sergei Sobokar will act as an official host to the counterparts from Ecuador.
Soviet naval ships visited Ecuador on two occasions in the 1970's.
In 1973, the floating tender Ivan Kucherenko and the tanker Vishera made a major tour of the South American countries including Ecuador - the first-time such visit in the history of the Pacific Fleet.
In 1975, the crew of the naval hydrographic ship Leonid Sobolev made an official visit to Ecuador.
However, Ecuadorian naval ships have not made a single visit to
Vladivostok since then.
Sailing schoolship Guayas was built in 1974 at a shipyard in Bilbao, Spain and was christened in honor of an Ecuadorian province of the same name. The Navy commissioned it into the tables of equipment July 23, 1977.
It joined various sea voyages devoted to the 500th anniversary since the discovery of America by Columbus that was marked in 1992, as well as in the 200th anniversary since the discovery of Australia and the centenary jubilee of the Statue of Liberty in New York.
WASHINGTON, August 5 (Itar-Tass) - Clerics and laymen united in the congregation of the Russian Orthodox metropolitan cathedral of St John the Baptist in Washington have held a remembrance service for the late Nobel Prize winning writer Alexander Solzhenitsyn, who died in Moscow Sunday night at the age of 90.
"It's a great loss for us," archpriest Viktor Potapov, the father
superior of the cathedral told Itar-Tass. "I personally knew Alexander
Isayevich /Solzhenitsyn's patronymic - Itar-Tass/ and members of his
family and I visited him twice in his house in Vermont and on several more occasions in his office in Moscow."
To say that Solzhenitsyn was a great writer and thinker means to say just nothing, the Reverend Potapov said in his sermon during the service that was attended by numerous members of other Churches and parishes.
He indicated that the late writer was more like a prophet, whose
predictions have either come true already or continue coming true right in front of our eyes.
The Rev Potapov recalled that in 1974, soon after the expulsion from the USSR, Solzhenitsyn addressed the 3rd all-Abroad Council of the Russian Orthodox Church outside of Russia, urging the Church hierarchs in the West and worldwide to pass milder judgments on the clerics inside the Soviet Union for compromises with the authorities and to treat the Russian Orthodox Church inside Russia with more benevolence, brotherly love and understanding of the hardships it had had to live through.
In some sense, Solzhenitsyn foreran the reunification process inside the Russian Church 30 years before its finalization, the Rev Potapov said.
Three earthquakes registered in Sakhalin, Kurile Islands since Monday
morning.
YUZHNO-SAKHALINSK, August 5 (Itar-Tass) - A total of three earthquakes have been registered in Sakhalin and the Kurile Islands since Monday morning, officials at the Far-Eastern Regional Center of the Russian Ministry for Emergency Situations and Civil Defense told Itar-Tass.
The magnitude of the most powerful quake totaled 6.1 points on the
open-ended Richter scale.
This quake occurred at 04:42 GMT Monday in the Pacific Ocean 51
kilometers away from the island of Paramushir. Its seismic focus was
located at a depth of 80 kilometers under the ocean's floor.
Shocks measurering up to 4.0 points were felt in the town of
Severo-Kurilsk. People in the Kamchatka territory's capital
Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky and in the town of Ozerkovsky felt shocks ranging from 2.0 points to 3,0 points.
A weak earthquake occurred on the same day in are 64 kilometers away from Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk, the administrative center of the insular Sakhalin region. A shock 2.0 points strong was felt in the village of Kostromskoye.
In the small hours of Tuesday morning, an earthquake totaling 4.1
points occurred in the Pacific to the east of the Kuriles. It did not have any aftereffects.
Ecuadorian naval ship arrives on first-ever visit to Vladivostok.
VLADIVOSTOK, August 5 (Itar-Tass) - An Ecuadorian naval ship has
arrived the first-ever visit to the Russian Pacific naval base of
Vladivostok, officials at the press service of Russia's Pacific Fleet told Itar-Tass.
Ecuadorian seamen will stay here through August 10.
Schoolship Guayas is commanded by Captain 1st Rank Freddy Garcia Colla and has a 120-strong crew including 16 officers and 80 naval cadets.
Taking part in this trip is Ecuador's ambassador extraordinary and
plenipotentiary to Russia, Patricio Alberto Chavez Savala.
In the course of the visit, the Ecuadorian seamen will be received by top commanders of the Pacific Fleet and Vladivostok city mayor.
The hosts will organize bus tours of the city's sights for them and a wide range of informal meetings with Russian naval officers and cadets.
The schoolship's crew will lay flowers at the Pacific Fleet's Glory Memorial and will receive Russian counterparts aboard their ship.
The crew of the big antisubmarine ship Admiral Tributz under the
command of Captain 2nd Rank Sergei Sobokar will act as an official host to the counterparts from Ecuador.
Soviet naval ships visited Ecuador on two occasions in the 1970's.
In 1973, the floating tender Ivan Kucherenko and the tanker Vishera made a major tour of the South American countries including Ecuador - the first-time such visit in the history of the Pacific Fleet.
In 1975, the crew of the naval hydrographic ship Leonid Sobolev made an official visit to Ecuador.
However, Ecuadorian naval ships have not made a single visit to
Vladivostok since then.
Sailing schoolship Guayas was built in 1974 at a shipyard in Bilbao, Spain and was christened in honor of an Ecuadorian province of the same name. The Navy commissioned it into the tables of equipment July 23, 1977.
It joined various sea voyages devoted to the 500th anniversary since the discovery of America by Columbus that was marked in 1992, as well as in the 200th anniversary since the discovery of Australia and the centenary jubilee of the Statue of Liberty in New York.
