| November 2006 |
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The situation in Kyrgyzstan calmed down after violent clashes Tuesday between opposition and government supporters in the capital, and a government official said a deal had been reached on amending the Constitution. 
The timeframe for launching the Bushehr nuclear power plant, which Russia is building in southern Iran, could be modified, a source in Russia's nuclear power sector said Tuesday. 
Alexander Medvedev, who heads the company's export arm Gazexport, said Georgia is able to pay the proposed price of $230 per 1,000 cu m, "which corresponds to the level of all countries." 
The president of Kyrgyzstan told his Russian counterpart in a phone conversation that his country's authorities have the situation in the Central Asian republic under control, Kurmanbek Bakiyev's press service said Tuesday. 
Gazprom is ready to join the Sakhalin II project, when cost disputes and environmental problems surrounding the vast Shell-led hydrocarbon project in Russia's Far East are settled, a deputy board chairman of the state-controlled energy giant said Tuesday. 
Russian President Vladimir Putin has congratulated Emomali Rakhmonov on a decisive victory in Monday's presidential election in Tajikistan, the Kremlin press service said Tuesday. 
Russia will supply 55 billion cubic meters of natural gas to Ukraine in 2007, fully meeting its gas needs, energy giant Gazprom said Tuesday. 
Russian energy giant Gazprom [RTS: GAZP] said Tuesday there will be no subsidized natural gas prices for members of the Commonwealth of Independent States, an alliance of former Soviet republics. 
"The [current] agreements on Russian gas deliveries and transit via Slovak territory expire in 2008. Today we have confirmed our general agreement to sign new long-term contracts," Vladimir Putin said after a meeting with Ivan Gasparovic. 
Three people hospitalized in the wake of clashes in Bishkek's central square were wounded by buckshot in the legs, a spokeswoman for Kyrgyzstan's Health Ministry said Tuesday. 
"The [current] agreements on Russian gas deliveries and transit via Slovak territory expire in 2008. Today we have confirmed our general agreement to sign new long-term contracts," Vladimir Putin said after a meeting with Slovak President Ivan Gasparovic. 
Iran's foreign minister is expected in Moscow on November 9 to discuss his country's controversial nuclear program, the IRNA news agency said Tuesday. 
Four people have reportedly been hospitalized with gunshot wounds and two with gas poisoning during clashes between supporters of the opposition and the incumbent leadership in the Kyrgyz capital Bishkek. 



