| March 2007 |
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Russia and Iran are both interested in completing a nuclear power plant in the south of the Islamic Republic as soon as possible, the Iranian ambassador to Russia said Tuesday. 
The president of Belarus, a transit nation for Europe-bound Russian hydrocarbons, signed a decree to charge rent on forestland under power lines, and gas and oil pipelines. 
Russia and Belarus failed Tuesday to sign a new basic treaty removing barriers in mutual trade, Russia's deputy economics minister said. 
President Vladimir Putin has declared March 21 a day of mourning for the victims of a West Siberian mine explosion, a plane crash on the Volga and a fire in a retirement home in southern Russia, the Kremlin press service said Tuesday. 
Russian contractor Atomstroyexport has denied foreign media reports that many Russian specialists have left the Bushehr nuclear power plant construction site in southern Iran. 
Russia's Security Council has denied reports in the U.S. media that Moscow issued an ultimatum to Iran over its uranium enrichment activities, the council's press service said Tuesday. 
The former head of the bankrupt oil company Yukos and his business partner must be transferred to Moscow for the investigation of a new money laundering case, Mikhail Khodorkovsky's lawyer said Tuesday. 
Sakhalin Energy that operates the Sakhalin II oil and gas project off Russia's Pacific Coast has submitted a plan of measures to remedy environmental damage caused by the project, the natural resources ministry said Tuesday. 
Russia's Orthodox Church is opposed to Gay Pride parades as propaganda of homosexuality harmful to society, a church official said Tuesday. 
According to the latest information, 105 people were killed in a methane explosion that hit a West Siberian coal mine Monday, a local administration official said Tuesday. 



