SESSION OF THE RUSSIAN-CGerman SOCIAL FORUM IN BERLIN TAKEN
PLACE








BERLIN, 5 March.  / RIA "Nowosti" rIA-"Nowosti"-Korrespondent
Alexander Guljakowski /. in Berlin took place on Sunday the first
session of the organizing committee of the social Russian-German
forum.  This social organization had been created on initiative of
Russian president Vladimir Putin and the Federal Chancellor of Germany
Gerhard Schroeder.

Like Boris Gryslow, Russian director/conductor of the forum and
chairman of the Dumafraktion " unit ", which to Berlin to the
organizational session had come, explained, predestines the
establishment of such a forum the inclusion of the public of the two
countries into political, economic and cultural life, in science,
education as well as discussion of questions of the mass media of
Russia and Germany.

He emphasized that such contacts will enable it to become acquainted
with each other better problems to understand, which consist in the
two countries to give and the executive force recommendations for the
improvement of the Russian-German relations.

Russian-German forum called one " Petersburger dialog ", because its
first session, in which Vladimir Putin and Gerhard Schroeder will take
part, sank during in April the which is approaching meeting of the
prominent representatives of Russia and Germany in Petersburg will
take place.

Afterwards the next session of the " Petersburger of dialog " will
take place in April 2002 in Weimar.