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Dear Mr. Gore,

Your visit to Moscow demonstrates the will of your country to build stable good-neighbour relations with Russia. With this aim you render support to the present leadership of Russia.

We understand your aspiration for political and social stability in one of the biggest nuclear powers which would garantee the enough safety in the immediate proximity with this "nuclear keg".Now you have an uncommon possibility to reach more safe future for the whole world if you find the mode to render your support under the condition of "transparency" of the ecological policy of Russian leadership.

Recently the leadership and secret services contrary to Russian legislation consistently carry out the project of returning our country to the informational closeness, and the problems of ecological safety become the first issue in the agenda.

The decrees of President restrict access to the cities of Severomorsk, Shihany, Raduzhnyi (the centres of production and service of nuclear submarines, chemical and laser armament). The ecological problems accumulated in these cities threaten with world-scale disaster. Since August 1994 all the data about the radioactive waste materials buried in Siberia and Volga's district have been made secret.

The prosecution of Alexandre Nikitin (the report of "Beluna") and military journalist-ecologist Grigory Pasko who is arrested for his aspiration to make widely known the problem of the pollution of Far-Eastern seas with radioactive waste materials is the most clear example of the purposeful hiding of the information on the ecological situation.

All these expensive measures (and perhaps we are not aware of many others ones) for which the big money including the credits you allow is spent may be targeted not to solve the ecological problems in Russia but to hide them from the public attention.

Mr. Vice-President! We hope you will take it into consideration when making decisions on relations between our countries and pay attention to dangerous tendency in the informational policy of Russian leadership, and (as the first step) require to stop the prosecution of the ecologist Alexandre Nikitin (St.-Petersbourg) and the journalist Grigory Pasko (Vladivostok).

Attachment: Brief survey on Grigory Pasko's case