Dear Comrade Lucas and members of the Editorial Board of NSC and of the Executive Committee of the International Council!

We send you our warmest greetings on this New Year 2005. Let us take this opportunity to wish all of you good health, fruitful work as well as success in what you are striving for.

We are confident that the forthcoming Second World Congress for Friendship and Solidarity with Soviet People will significantly contribute to uniting the forces fighting against the imperialist barbarity and supporting the struggle to re-establish USSR and Socialism.

G.I. TIKHONOV
Chairman of the Russian Society for Friendship with Foreign Countries

V.N. Chechentsev
Vice Chairman

V.V. Bourenkov
Vice Chairman