Moscow to hold remembrance events on Day of Victims of Fascism

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MOSCOW, September 13 (Itar-Tass) - Youth organizations plan holding a
number of public actions in Moscow under the motto of 'Not Forgotten, Not
Forgiven' as Russia observers the Day of Memory of the Victims of Fascism
on the second Sunday of September.
More than 400 activists of the youth movement 'Nashi' will get
together at meetings of remembrance and mourning in front of the embassies
of Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, and Ukraine - the former Soviet republics
where nationalistic quarters have been actively rehabilitating the people
who collaborated with Nazi Germany's forces during World War II.
"By organizing these actions, we'd like to spotlight the fact that
some countries in today's Europe still connive at the activity of nowadays
fascists," Nashi's leader Nikita Borovikov told Itar-Tass.
Nashi activists hope to send a reminder to leaderships of the
countries watching benevolently the manifestations of fascism on their
territories that the proliferation of such sympathies may have dire
consequences.
The movement will put up mobile photo exhibitions near the embassies
of the four countries. To commemorate those who fell in fighting with the
'brown plague', the activists will lay flowers by the walls of the
ambassadorial buildings and will lit candles.
Nashi activists also hope to remind the public of the pulling down of
the monument to Soviet wartime soldiers in Estonia's capital Tallinn, of
the attempts to outrage on the memory of WW II heroes in Ukrainian city of
Lvov where insulting billboards with Nazi symbols appear on the streets,
and of the regular attempts to hold marches of SS division veterans in the
Latvian capital Riga.
"We'd like to send a reminder to the European community that states
with fascist inclinations still exist in the world freed from Nazism
decades ago," Borovikov said. "It's in the interests of the entire
civilized community to prevent the emergence of new hotbeds of the 'brown
plague'."


.Earthquake measuring 6 pts strikes Venezuela.

CARACAS, September 13 (Itar-Tass) - An earthquake measuring 6.2 points
on the open-ended Richter scale occurred on the territory of Venezuela
Saturday.
Jessy Chacon, the minister of science, technology and medium industry
said the epicenter of the quake was located some 150 kilometers west off
Caracas and the seismic focus, 28 kilometers below the surface of the
earth.
Crust tremors were felt in practically all the western and central
states of Venezuela and in Caracas.
At the time of reporting, there was no information on either
destructions or victims of the natural calamity.

.G8 parliament speakers holding conference in Rome.

ROME, September 13 (Itar-Tass) - Speakers of lower houses of
parliament from the G8 countries are expected to have the last session of
the two-day conference here Sunday.
The Saturday session was devoted to the utilization of new
communications technologies in the interaction between national
parliaments and institutes of civic society.
The main report on the issue was by the speaker of France's National
Assembly, Bernard Accoyer.
Boris Gryzlov, the speaker of Russia's State Duma, said in the course
of the debate that authorities in his country, which has made a real big
leap in the IT industry, are developing a program titled 'Information
Society 2011-2018'.
He believes that interactive communications with the institutes of
civic society objectively expand the opportunities for a direct dialogue
with voters and facilitates the rise of an open relationship with them.
"Our objective is to bridge the information gap between different
constituent territories of the Russian Federation, and the regional
program of IT proliferation must play the key role in this," Gryzlov said.
Saturday was tightly packed with important meetings, as participants
in the forum were received by Italy's President Giorgio Napolitano and
Rome Mayor Gianni Alemanno and held consultations behinds closed doors
with the Italian House of Deputies' speaker Gianfranco Fini acting as
chairman.
Gryzlov had talks with the new speaker of the European parliament,
Jiri Buzek. The itinerary ended with an official dinner at Villa Madama,
which serves as the house of official receptions in Rome. Prime Minister
Silvio Berlusconi attended the dinner.
A total of two theme sessions are to be held in Montecitorio Palace
Sunday and both will look at the role that parliaments can play in
promoting dialogue between different countries and social integration.
U.S. House of Representative speaker Nancy Pelosi will act as the
rapporteur.
UN Deputy Secretary General Antonio Maria Costa will make a report on
parliaments' efforts to counteract the spread of drug addiction and
organized crime. The speaker of Egyptian parliament will join the
discussion.
Sunday, Boris Gryzlov is expected to meet with the speaker of Indian
parliament's lower house, Meira Kumar.
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