An IL-76 plane crashes in Yakutia, six people dead.

KHABAROVSK, November 1 (Itar-Tass) - An IL-76 plane of the Russian
Interior Ministry crashed early on Sunday morning while taking off from
the Mirnyi airport in the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia), a source at the Far
Eastern regional centre of the Russian Emergencies Ministry told Itar-Tass.
The accident occurred at about 02:00 Moscow time. There were seven
crewmen onboard. Six bodies have already been found at the crash site.
Rescue teams and other emergency workers are searching for the seventh
crewman.


.European security policy should include Russia.


BERLIN, November 1 (Itar-Tass) - Horst Keller, the president of
Germany, on Saturday called on the European Union to pursue a foreign and
security policy that would include Russia. That would be an ideal
supplement to the trans-Atlantic partnership with the United States,
President Keller said in his speech at a ceremonial meeting organized by
the Konrad-Adenauer Foundation to mark the 20th anniversary of the fall of
the Berlin Wall.
The former U.S. president George H.W. Bush, ex-Soviet leader Mikhail
Gorbachev, the former German chancellor Helmut Kohl and German Chancellor
Angela Merkel attended the meeting on Saturday that actually started
celebrations to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin
Wall to be marked on November 9.
"A proposal made by the former German foreign minister, Hans-Dietrich
Genscher, in the 1990s that a space of security, freedom and prosperity
should be created from Vancouver to Vladivostok looks into the future,"
Keller went on to say.
"This goal is attainable if the European Union together with Russia
and other CIS countries develops partnership in the interests of the whole
of Europe that would be based on intensive dialogue, good-neighborly
relations and long-term cooperation. Everything is possible. The
conditions for it are better now than for the last 100 years," the German
president emphasized.
President Keller believes that the East and West could achieve a lot
for the sake of reciprocal benefits.
"If we manage to expand the trans-European transportation network,
organize reliable energy supplies and to bring the economic and social
systems of all European countries closer together, then Europe may face a
rise it rarely had in its history. The European Union and Russia should
develop this kind of cooperation," the German president stressed.


. An IL-76 plane crashes in Yakutia, six people dead.


KHABAROVSK, November 1 (Itar-Tass) - According to clarified reports,
eleven people - seven from the main crew and four from the reserve crew-
were onboard of an IL-76 plane that crashed early on Sunday morning in the
Republic of Sakha (Yakutia).
The accident occurred at about 02:00 Moscow time as the plane was
taking off from the Mirnyi airport, a source at the Far Eastern regional
centre of the Russian Emergencies Ministry told Itar-Tass.
He said the nature of the crash suggested that there would be no
survivors.
The plane fell down in a deserted area. Therefore, there are no
casualties on the ground.
Six dead bodies have already been found at the crash site. A search
for the missing crewmen continues.


.Reenactment of WWI events to take place in St. Petersburg.


ST. PETERSBURG, November 1 (Itar-Tass) - A military historical
festival devoted to the events of World War I will be held in St.
Petersburg on Sunday. By tradition, it precedes the celebrations of the
People's Unity Day to be marked on November 4. The festival will take
place in the territory of the Military Historical Museum near the
crownwork of the Peter and Paul Fortress.
This year the festival will bring together 150 delegates representing
military and historical clubs from St. Petersburg, Moscow, Petrozavodsk,
Perm, Yekaterinburg, Poland, Estonia, the Czech Republic and Belarus.
An everyday life of soldiers and officers of that time will be
reconstructed in the territory of the Alexander Park. The festival's task
is to create an atmosphere that reigned almost a hundred years ago. For
that fortifications have been built and a military camp with a field
kitchen has been set up. The visitors will have a chance to see the
outfits and equipment of not only the Russian army but also the armies of
Russia's allies and enemies.
The first re-enactment will reflect the events on the Eastern front in
1914. The second will be devoted to the end of the war on the Western
front. Military historians will comment on both reenactments.
Living through events from the past is a progressive method of
studying history.
"The so-called 'living history' is successfully applied in educational
projects around the globe. A method based on a natural human desire to
play helps arousing genuine interest of the visitors and participants in
such festivals in past events," Valery Krylov, the director of the
Military-Historical Museum, said.
Krylov believes that re-enactments of historical events in the
territories of military museums extends educational boundaries and wakes
the feelings of patriotism and national pride in young people.

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