| June 2006 |
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Gazprom (RTS: GAZP) could play a role as an energy foundation for European and world development, the Russian energy giant's CEO said Tuesday.
"We shall consider the proposals that have been made to us, after which Iran will give its answer," Ali Laridjani, the secretary of Iran's Security Council, said following more than two hours of negotiations.
Joint Russian-U.S. efforts to resolve a long-running conflict around Iran's nuclear program demonstrate Moscow and Washington's ability to find a compromise, President Vladimir Putin said Tuesday.
The Shanghai Cooperation Organization is not just an oriental version of NATO, and there are no plans to turn it into a military alliance, the organization's executive secretary said Tuesday.
Members of the radical National Bolshevik Party who attempted to disrupt an international gathering of newspaper executives in Moscow will be charged with public order offences, law-enforcement officials said Tuesday. 
The U.S. State Department has kept Russia on the list of 32 countries whose governments are not doing enough in the fight against trafficking in human beings, an annual report said.
"Changes occurring at present in Asia pose a quintessential, maybe the most important challenge to Russia's national security for the next decades," Nikolai Spassky said in an interview with Rossiiskaya Gazeta. "It is a challenge so far, not a threat."



