Dear comrades:

Happy New Year to all NSC readers and to members of the International Council. We are giving our many thanks for receiving Northstar Compass regularly. We are very happy that our organization was elected to be a member of the Executive Committee of the International Council for Friendship and Solidarity with Soviet People. Would you correct the spelling of our representative in NSC.

Best comradely greetings
Ghassem

Dear comrades;

On behalf of the Editorial Board of Proletarskaya Gazeta and the Executive Committee of the trade union Zaschita, I would like to wish you Michael and Northstar Compass and the Executive Committee of the International Council, the very best for 2006 in the struggle against capitalism and for international solidarity.

We have and always will support you!

Rafael Martinez

Dear friends:

Yes we do agree with the reply to Oleg Shenin's letter that was published in NSC.

We are also informing you that the first Russian edition of NSC has been printed and it was presented at the meeting of the Coordinating Council of the Soviet Society for Friendship with Foreign Countries that was held last December 27, 2005.

We are now distributing it amongst the political activists and also to the representatives of many different movements here and we already sent you copies of the journal by mail.

We also would like to send the first Russian edition to the addresses in former Soviet Union that you are sending the English edition of NSC to. Please forward them to us.

This first Russian edition printing was sponsored by G.I. Tikhonov and printed by the staff of the "Ekonomicheskaya Gazeta. Its chief Editor A.N. Chekalin added some of their articles into this issue.

Best Communist regards!

Vladimir Chechentsev, Chairman
Viktor Bourenkov, Vice Chairman'