RUSSIAN ESPERANTO CONGRESS OPENS








ST.PETERSBURG, March 4. /RIA Novosti's correspondent Svetlana Chikirova/. Today a Russian Esperanto congress opened in the Serovo settlement in the Leningrad region. 


	RIA Novosti was told at the interregional organisation Youth City, which co-sponsors this event, that at this congress will be held lectures, seminars on club work and round tables. The main matter in discussion at the congress is cooperation between Esperanto organisations and associations of Russia and the former USSR. 


	On March 8, when the congress ends, an art festival in Esperanto EoLa-13 will follow in Serovo. Guests and participants in this festival will be young Esperanto-speakers from Russia, Ukraine, Serbia, Poland, Finland, France and Sweden. 


	Esperanto, a universal auxiliary language, was created in 1887 by Polish doctor Zamenhof and has become widely spread. Today 10 million people across the world speak this language.