Kremlin says Nazism, Stalinism should not be equated.

VILNIUS, July 10 (Itar-Tass) -- Kremlin Chief-of-Staff Sergei
Naryshkin disagreed with the OSCE resolution that equated totalitarian
Stalinism to Nazism.

"Definitely, we cannot agree with the resolution provision, which puts
Nazism and Stalinism on one level. This is unfair from the historic point
of view," he said on Thursday commenting on the resolution of the OSCE
parliamentary assembly titled Reunification of Divided Europe adopted in
Vilnius last week.
Many viewed the document initiated by Lithuania and Slovenia as a
blatant attack on Russia.
Naryshkin recalled that totalitarian regimes existed in many European
countries. "If we want to personify totalitarianism, we have to name them
all. That would be historically objective," he said, adding that Russia
has denounced Stalinism.
"The context of assessing totalitarian regimes shall be much wider,"
he said.
However he noted positive aspects of the resolution saying it "helps
resolve the tasks facing Russia - to struggle against those who falsify
history, who is being searched for as an accomplice of the Nazis."
As for Lithuania, Naryshkin said Russia wants stable bilateral
relations based on mutual respect.
"It is necessary to treat the historic past of the two peoples with
attention and respect," he said.
Naryshkin arrived in Vilnius to present the Russian Order of Honor to
Soviet People's Artists Donatas Banionis and Saulus Sondezkis.

.Russia mulls returning czar's name to railway station.

MOSCOW, July 10 (Itar-Tass) -- Russia is considering a return of the
original czar's name to the oldest railway station in Moscow connecting it
with St. Petersburg.
The Russian Railways Company (RZD) said on Thursday the idea to cancel
the 1923 decision of KGB founder Felix Dzerzhinsky to rename the
Nikolayevsky station named after Russian Czar Nicolas the First was
advanced by the Reversion Fund.
It has been considered by the History Institute of the Russian Academy
of Sciences, the Federal Agency for railway transport and Moscow transport
department.
"No final decision on renaming Leningradsky railway station has been
made," RZD press service said rejecting its earlier announcement on the
renaming of the station, which it said was wired because of a "technical
fault".
The station was named after Czar Nicolas the First as the first
Russian railway connecting St. Petersburg and Moscow was built under his
rule.
In 1923 Dzerzhinsky, who was also the Bolshevik transport minister,
ordered to rename the station into Oktyabrsky to commemorate the Bolshevik
revolution in October 1917, and a year later, after Petrograd (St.
Petersburg) was renamed into Leningrad the station got the name of
Leningradsky. In 1991 Leningrad received its original name of St.
Petersburg back, however the railway station preserved its Soviet name.

.Russia calls for international prosecution of Somali pirates.

UNITED NATIONS, July 10 (Itar-Tass) -- Russia said on Thursday power
actions against Somali pirates will not improve the situation all by
themselves and called for an international mechanism to prosecute the
pirates.
"Only power measures to prevent pirate attacks will not yield the
desired result. Preventive efforts are necessary to bring those guilty to
responsibility. The Russian Federation considers the guideline as key to
the anti-piracy strategy," Russian Ambassador to the United Nations Vitaly
Churkin told a meeting of the UN Security Council devoted to Somalia.
He called for a complex of short and long-term measures and said
"alongside the strengthening of the potential of the states in the
sub-region in the criminal and legal sphere it is necessary to think about
the creation of international trial mechanisms for people involved in
piracy and armed assaults at sea".
Piracy is a destabilizing factor in the region and "the threat of its
spread to other vulnerable areas on the African coast is becoming more
tangible," Churkin said.
"Efforts of military convoy of sea vessels and destruction of pirate
infrastructure, specifically its financial component are important. Russia
is actively participating in the collective effort," the ambassador said.
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