Moscow, August 6 1999.

On Thursday, August 12, regional presentation of the petition campaign "The third millennium without conscription slavery" will take place in Tver'.

This campaign was launched by the Radical Party and the Antimilitarist Radical Association (ARA) on May, 21 1999. Its object is to collect by January 2000 50.000 signatures of Russian citizens under the petition, addressed to the next State Duma, appealing to abolish the compulsory military service and to pass to an entirely professional voluntary basis of remanning the Russian Armed Forces.

The presentation will take place in cinema Vulkan, ul. Vol'nogo Novgoroda, 23, at 6:00 p.m., with participation of Nikolai Khramov, Russian co-ordinator of the Radical Party and ARA Secretary, and Alena Asaeva, vice Secretary of the ARA.

To the attention of the media: to be accredited at the presentation, please, send your message to our pager (095) 230-4141, subscriber 24712, till 7:00 p.m. on August, 11. Please, indicate your name, telephone number, your office fax and e-mail.

For more details, please, contact the ARA:

Tel. (095) 208-1805, 208-4902, 928-1401