Mournful services for nightclub fire victims to be held on Dec 7.

PERM, the Urals, December 6 (Itar-Tass) - Muslims and Orthodox
Christians of the Perm territory are praying for the health of those who
were wounded in the nightclub fire early on Saturday.

The Muslim World - 2009 inter-regional forum, which is being held in
Perm, has excluded all cultural events and entertainments from its
program. The delegates pray reading the Holy Koran.
"The Muslims of the Perm territory are grieving together with you and
are ready to give you all kind of aid and assistance; they are praying for
the souls of the dead and the alleviation of the lot of the wounded and
their earliest recovery," the Religious Department of Muslims of the Perm
territory said in its address.
Imams from the Islamic High Council of Perm are on duty at a place
where the dead bodies are being identified.
A funeral service for those who died in the Lame Horse nightclub fire
will be held at the St. Trinity Cathedral in Perm on Monday, December 7.
Mournful services will be held in other Orthodox churches in Perm.

.Lithuanian ex-PM calls for friendlier relations with Russia.

VILNIUS, December 6 (Itar-Tass) - The first Prime Minister of
independent Lithuania, Kazimira Prunskiene, has called for friendlier
relations with Russia and other eastern neighbors.
In her speech at the constituent congress of a new political party -
the People's Union - Prunskiene said that the new party would pursue a
balanced line, including in the foreign policy where active ties should be
maintained both with the West and the East.
"Lithuania needs to be more friendly in its relations with Russia,
Kazakhstan and Belarus. That may contribute to its earliest exit out of
the current crisis," Prunskiene, who was elected the People's Union's
chairwoman, said on Saturday.
She regretted that some Lithuanian politicians found it hard to
overcome the post-Soviet syndrome and didn't want to realize that
contemporary Russia had ceased to be the Soviet Union and a Stalinist
country long ago.
The People's Union positions itself as a "broad centre" party. It is
supposed to unite all pragmatic and healthy forces of society.
"It's impossible to stay aside when amateurs are playing with the
country's destiny and professionals are on the sidelines," Prunskiene
said, explaining what had prompted the creation of the new party.

.Male patient delivered from Perm dies in St. Petersburg.

ST.PETERSBURG, December 6 (Itar-Tass) - Another victim of the Perm
nightclub fire has died in St. Petersburg tonight. The man suffering from
extensive burns was in intensive care at the Dzhanelidze Emergency Aid
Research Institute.
Fourteen patients from Perm have been delivered to St. Petersburg on
Sunday. Nine of them have been sent to the Dzhanelidze Emergency Aid
Research Institute and five to the Military Medical Academy. A Russian
Emergencies Ministry source told Itar-Tass that ten of them were connected
to artificial lung ventilation. It means that their condition is extremely
serious.
Hospitals in St. Petersburg have received 45 patients from Perm. Two
special flights had delivered 31 people suffering from severe burns a day
earlier, on Saturday.

.Ministers return to Moscow from Perm, land at Domodedovo.

MOSCOW, December 6 (Itar-Tass) - The Russian Minister of Emergency
Situations Sergei Shoigu, Minister of Health and Social Development
Tatiana Golikova and Interior Minister Rashid Nurgaliyev have returned to
Moscow from Perm on Sunday.
In Perm, they supervised an operation to liquidate the consequences of
a fire that broke out at one of the city's night clubs and claimed the
lives of 108 people.
A Yak-42 plane with the ministers onboard landed at Moscow's
Domodedovo airport at around 2 o'clock on Sunday morning.

.Russian businessman denied entry to Poland.

WARSAW, December 6 (Itar-Tass) - Russian entrepreneur German Sterligov
was denied entry to Poland on Saturday because of the damaged visa in his
passport, the press secretary of the Polish border guards service told
Iatr-Tass.
Polish border guards paid attention to Sterligov's visa when they were
checking his documents afte rthe latter had crossed the Belarusian-Polish
border by train.
Sterligov will be sent back to Russia by the first train bound for
Moscow.