In St. Petersburg, by the end of December, the festival “Andrei Petrov in the circle of friends” , dedicated to the 70th anniversary of the composer. David Goloshchekin, Eldar Ryazanov, Lyudmila Gurchenko will perform in concerts. In the Great Hall of the Philharmonic, Yuri Temirkanov will present a new composition of the anniversary “Brilliant St. Petersburg”. In Berlin, an exhibition dedicated to Serbian cultural resistance to the regime of Slobodan Milosevich’s regime was opened .

In Kyiv, yesterday about a hundred people held an anti -Russian demonstration near the building of the Russian Embassy. The demonstrators demanded that they return monetary deposits made before 1991, when the USSR collapsed. In addition, the protesters called on the Russian authorities to return works of art exported from the territory of Ukraine in Soviet times.

More than 20 people, who disappeared a few days ago in the Chukotka tundra, were discovered on Friday evening by a detachment of rescuers. All people are alive. First aid is provided to them. The group, who was heading to the Chukotka administrative center - Anadyr, was in the tundra from November 16 - due to a breakdown of snowmobiles. From the scene to the nearest housing - about 70 kilometers.

The international conference on "global warming" ends its work in the Hague today. The parties are close to achieving a compromise by measures aimed at protecting the environment. The EU countries went on significant concessions to the United States, which abandon the radical decrease in the level of gases thrown into the atmosphere, and offer alternative environmental measures.

The human rights organization "International Amnesty" proposes to send an international group of observers-guards to the gas sector and to the west coast of Jordan. In a letter, the UN Security Council "International Amnesty" emphasizes that the presence of independent observers can stabilize the situation in the area of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

Evgeny Bovkun, Bonn: The spacious hall of the reception of the Bremen Hall is full of representatives of the Germanic public and journalists. The burgomaster of Bremen and the chairman of the city Senate Social Democrat Hanning Sherf solemnly present to Russian human rights activist Elena Bonner the prestigious prize for the political thinking named after Khanna Arendt.

The situation on the western coast of the Jordan and in the gas sector remains tense. Through thousands of demonstrations were held today on the occasion of the funeral of the Palestinians who died the day before. Demonstrators shouted anti -Israeli slogans and called for violent actions. As a result of yesterday's clashes, two Israeli and five Palestinians were killed.

The President of Yugoslavia, Voislav Koshtunitsa, called on the leader of the Kosovo Albanians Ibrahim Rugova to begin negotiations on the establishment of a durable world in Kosovo. In a letter directed by Rugu, the Yugoslav leader emphasized the need to terminate the acts of violence in the province as soon as possible. The Democratic Union of Kosovo, led by the Rugovoi, defeated in recent municipal elections, advocates the provision of Independence Province.

Ingushetia received only 27 percent of the funds necessary for the maintenance of refugees in the republic, ”said the President of Ingushetia Ruslan Aushev. According to him, instead of one and a half billion rubles this year, 400 million were sent to Ingushetia. According to the president, 142 thousand refugees remain in the republic. Aushev also said that the United Nations establishes a new tent camp for 20 thousand people in Ingushetia.

Slobodan Miloshevich was re -elected to the post of chairman of the Socialist Party of Serbia. About 85 percent of the delegates voted on a former president of Yugoslavia on Saturday in Belgrade. Miloshevich was the only candidate for the post of head of the party. Speaking at the congress, Miloshevich accused the West of trying to break the socialists and ruin the Yugoslav Federation, and the new Yugoslav leaders in the betrayal of national interests.

The head of the Government of the PRC Zhu Zhuntji proposed creating a free trade zone between China and ten countries of the Association of Southeast Asian states - Asian. Speaking in Singapore at the ASEAN summit, Zhu Zhunji said that the entry of Kaita to the World Trade Organization will expand the trade opportunities for the countries of Southeast Asia. The Chinese prime minister also emphasized the need to strengthen political cooperation between the PRC and ASEAN.

Participants in the GAAG International Conference on the problems of global warming are discussing today a joint political statement that will complete the work of the forum. According to observers, the conference did not achieve the goals - the participants did not manage to coordinate the basic measures to reduce the release of industrial gases into the atmosphere that cause a "greenhouse effect".

The head of the Palestinian autonomy, Yasir Arafat, is discussing today a crisis in the Middle East with the king of Jordan Abdallah. Arafat will inform him of yesterday's meeting in Moscow with Russian President Vladimir Putin. During this meeting, Arafat’s telephone conversation with Israeli Prime Minister Ehuda Barack also took place. The Barack’s office reported that he agreed with the Arafat to again open the Israeli-Palestinian communications points that were closed by Israel on Thursday.

South Korea and the DPRK will hold negotiations on the next Tuesday to restore transport communication between the two Korean states, interrupted half a century ago - after the Korean War of the Penties. The issues of clearance of the border demilitarized zone sharing the Korean peninsula since 1945 will be discussed.

Victoria Munblit, Tel Aviv: In Israel, the results of the visit of Yasir Arafat to Moscow are positively evaluated. In general, in recent months, it is becoming more and more noticeable that Jerusalem headed for rapprochement with Russia. There are five reasons for such a change in the Israeli foreign policy after many years of unambiguous orientation only and exclusively on the United States.