US Vice President Richard Cheney expressed the hope that Russia will actively cooperate with NATO as part of the new NATO Council. This structure should be approved at the Union summit in Rome, which opens next week. The Council will enable Russia to be an equal NATO partner in making some security decisions.

Great Britain fears that the conflict between India and Pakistan because of Kashmir can develop into a nuclear war. This was said today in an interview with B. British Minister of Foreign Affairs Jack Str, who emphasized that the world community should make the most energetic efforts to prevent a catastrophe. Next week, Stri will visit Delhi and Islamabad. With the call - to resolve the conflict peacefully - the United States turned to India and Pakistan yesterday.

The program is conducted by Peter Vile. Mikhail Sokolov and Mumin Shakirov talked with deputies of the State Duma. Peter Vail: The State Duma of Russia adopted in the final third reading a new version of the law on guarantees of electoral rights of citizens. This opens the way to adjusting the laws on the election of the President of Russia and deputies of the State Duma this year.

The UN Security Council is expected to host a resolution today, extending the mandate of the international peacekeeping contingent in Kabul for another six months. The current mandate ends on June 20. The document does not provide for the expansion of the zone of liability of peacekeepers outside the Afghan capital, which is called by the head of the Provisional Administration of Afghanistan Hamid Karzai.

Evgeny Bovkun. Berlin: A visit to Germany of the President of the United States George Bush continues. German television transfers newsreels, between which there are decades. The jubilant crowds of the Berliners welcome President Kennedy, the current crowds of aggressive pacifists burn American flags, throw the police with stones and meet a high guest with posters "We do not need your wars, Mr. Bush!" The result of yesterday's night riots - over forty wounded and about sixty detained.

The Presidium of the Central Committee of the Communist Party recommended that Gennady Seleznev and the chairmen of the Duma committees Svetlana Goryachev and Nikolai Gubenko, for the disobedience of party discipline, were excluded from the party. The issue will be resolved at the Plenum of the Central Committee of the Communist Party on Saturday. In April, the Communist Party - in protest against the redistribution of leading posts in the Duma - decided to abandon the Duma posts.

On Thursday, the State Duma of Russia rejected the bill, according to which PTU graduates could receive a deferment from drafting into the army. The bill was submitted to the lower house of the Russian parliament of the Moscow Regional Duma. According to Yevgeny Zelenov, a member of the State Duma Defense Committee, the right to delay has already been granted to 22 categories of Russian citizens.

In Paris, a fire broke out in the premises of the Israeli embassy early in the morning. 35 fire engines fight fire. The victims are not reported. The cause of the fire is unknown. In France, cases of attacks on synagogues and other Jewish objects have recently become more frequent.

In the Kirov region, over 180 settlements were left yesterday without light due to accidents caused by heavy snowfall. More than 50 thousand people suffered from the elements. An emergency regime has been introduced in the region. Recovery work is underway.

In the Khabarovsk Territory, the energy supply of the radio transmitting center is limited - for debts. According to Khabarovskenergo, the debt of the center broadcasting the program of radio stations Olympus and Europe-Plus exceeds 37 million rubles. According to power engineers, the broadcasting on Khabarovsk Radio of Russia and the Yunost radio station previously limited.

In Moscow on Thursday evening, several left -wing Russian organizations and parties held a protest authority against the arrival of US President George Bush. About 500 participants in the rally completely blocked the movement on Novinsky Boulevard, where the American embassy is located. They waved red flags and shouted anti -American slogans.

Pakistan takes measures to strengthen his armed forces - in connection with the aggravation of the conflict with India because of Kashmir. Islamabad informed partners in the anti -terrorist coalition about the possible relocation of part of the troops from Afghan to the Indian border in the Kashmir region.

Mikhail Sokolov: The Communists skillfully pushed his foreheads. The Plenum of the Central Committee and the chairmen of the Duma committees of the Duma committees and Nikolai Gubenko, who remained at their posts, and the presidency of the Presidium of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Communist Party, recommends the Saturday of the Communist Party of Russia from the ranks of the Communist Party of Russia for disobedience to discipline.

Turkish President Akhmet Nedzht Sezer appealed to the Constitutional Court of the country with a proposal to cancel the amnesty law, according to which 5 thousand prisoners can be released. Parliament - contrary to the presidential veto - secondly approved the bill. Sezer considers the amnesty unconstitutional, since the document did not receive the vast majority in parliament.

Pope John Pavel the Second arrived on Thursday in Sofia. This is the first visit of the head of the Roman Catholic Church in Bulgaria. The Roman pontiff arrived in Sofia from the capital of Azerbaijan, where on Thursday he held a mass at the Baku stadium, and then met with the leaders of the Muslim and Jewish communities of the republic. The Mess was attended by almost the entire Catholic community of the country - about 120 people - and one and a half thousand Muslims.