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Leading Russian gas industry experts said Tuesday the country's natural gas supplies to China would help Russia strengthen its position on the international gas market.
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. 
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. 
According to Ivchenko, at the beginning of 2006, Naftogaz transferred $88 million to the Central Asian country's state concern, Turkmengaz, as advance payment for gas to be supplied later in the year, but the Turkmen side has failed to meet its obligations and deliver agreed-upon amounts of gas.
An opposition candidate in Sunday's presidential elections in Belarus said Tuesday that 108 opposition supporters had been arrested in the capital last night. 
About 200 people, mainly youth, are rallying around a tent camp in downtown Minsk, where they spent Monday night. Unofficial national white-red-white flags and flags representing the opposition, the European Union and even Ukraine and Azerbaijan can been seen flying above the crowd.
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. 
"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.
"Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has expressed confidence that during Alexander Lukashenko's new presidential term, relations between Iran and Belarus will continue to advance in all spheres," the Iranian presidential press service said.



