| March 2006 |
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Russian nuclear-powered submarines will participate in a project to survey Russia's continental shelf borders in the Arctic, a source in the defense ministry said Tuesday.
The biased verdict of the OSCE, Europe's main election monitoring organization, on the presidential election in Belarus highlights the need to improve the process of observing polls, an official spokesman for the Russian Foreign Ministry said Tuesday. 
Energy dominated the first day of Vladimir Putin's visit to China, as the Russian leader pledged to complement already substantial oil deliveries to Russia's energy-hungry neighbor with massive supplies of natural gas from Siberia, and the two countries agreed to continue cooperation in the nuclear industry. 
"Oil is the main wealth of the Chechen Republic," the lawmakers said, adding that Chechnya's oil reserves amounted to 25 million metric tons and would be completely exhausted in 10-15 years.
"Our relations are not only a factor of geopolitical stability. They also set an example of open international partnership which is not aimed against third countries and which promotes a more just world order," Vladimir Putin said at the opening ceremony of the Year of Russia in China.
"Oil is the main wealth of the Chechen Republic," the lawmakers said, adding that Chechnya's oil reserves amounted to 25 million metric tons and would be completely exhausted in 10-15 years. 
Over 1.3 million birds have died of bird flu or been culled in Russia since the beginning of the year, a senior official said Tuesday.



