In the Issue:

The UN General Secretary speech, addresses to geographers on the 1st of March 2001. Shortened translation by M.D. Ananicheva

The issue topic: Regional conference of the IGU

1. "Renaissance of geography at the down of Millennium" – the slogan of the Regional Conference of the IGU in Durban, South Africa. M.D. Ananicheva

2. E-mail interview by Maria Ananicheva Secretary of Russian National committee of IGU to Adalberto Vallega, First vice-president, International Geographical Union.

3. Commissions of the IGU
   Land Use/Cover Change – LUCC in Durban, August 2002. L.S. Mokrushina

   Commission of geographic education at the Regional Conference of the IGU. V.A. Gorbanev

   Commission of Climatology: program and results of meetings in Durban. E.N. Voskresenskaya

   News of Commission on political geography. V.A. Kolossov

4. Information on goals and activity of Villa Celimontana - Home of Geography.

Nature hazards and geography

1. Catastrofic serge of glacier in Karmadon Valley: whether it could be forecasted? Geographers and mass media: an overview. M.D. Ananicheva

2. It was serge of the pulsating glacier. L.V. Desinov

Events of the IGU and Russian National Committee

1. International conference "Society and environmental interaction under conditions of global and regional changes", Barnaul, August 2003. The second circular.

2. Workshop on "Global and regional land use/cover changes", Moscow, Russia, July 17-20, 2003. First circular.

3. One Earth – many Worlds. Information on the 30th Congress of the IGU in Glasgow, August, 2004.

1. Institute of Geography, Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS): International programs and mutual projects. M.S. Gnedovskaya

2. International relations of Institute of Geography, Siberian Branch of RAS, Irkutsk. V.A. Snyitko

Newly published monographs, atlases and scientific papers' compilations of the Institute of Geography RAS.