NATIONAL PRESS INSTITUTE

invites journalists

on April 23, 1998, at 11:30

to the news conference

ALL-RUSSIAN ACTION OF BUDDHISTS' PROTEST FOR LIBERATION OF THE YOUNGEST POLITICAL PRISONER IN THE WORLD, 9-YEARS-OLD PANCHEN LAMA OF TIBET FROM CHINESE PRISON

In the news conference are participating:

KIRSAN ILJUMZHINOV, President of Kalmykia,

VALERIJ BORSCEV, vice chairman of the State Duma Committee on public associations and religious organizations, chairman of the Human Rights Chamber of the Political Consultative Council by the President of Russian Federation,

GALINA STAROVOJTOVA, member of the State Duma, president of Democratic Russia Party

NGAWANG GELEK, official representative of H. H. the Dalai Lama in Russia, CIS and Mongolia,

GESHE JAMPA THINGLEY, Buddhist monch, doctor of Buddhist phylosophy,

DULMA SHAGDAROVA, president of Moscow Friends of Tibet Society,

ARKADIJ SCERBAKOV, representative of Moscow Buddhist Community,

NATALJA BALABAN, vice president of Moscow Buddhist Center Lama Tsoncapa.

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