| December 2006 |
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Gazprom [RTS: GAZP] has signed a memorandum on mutual understanding with Serbia, expressing the sides' interest in the construction of a new natural gas pipeline through the Balkan country's territory, the Russian energy giant said Wednesday. 
The autopsy results of Russian security service defector Alexander Litvinenko cannot be expected before Christmas, a London court spokesman said Wednesday. 
Russia's president said Wednesday the socio-economic isolation of the Far East region near China and its failure to effectively exploit its natural resources are a threat to national security. 
Russia's energy giant Gazprom has set the price of natural gas for Georgia at $235 per 1,000 cubic meters, the company spokesman said Wednesday. 
All armed formations in Georgia's breakaway region of South Ossetia are illegal and Georgia insists on their disbandment, a Georgian minister said Wednesday. 
All Middle East nations, including Iran and Syria, must be involved in regional peace talks rather than isolated from the process, Russia's foreign minister said Wednesday. 
Russia's foreign minister voiced serious concern Wednesday over Georgia's ongoing provocations against peacekeepers in its breakaway regions and the continued presence of Georgian troops in the buffer zone in defiance of the UN. 
Georgia said Wednesday it has restored Russian natural gas supplies to Armenia amid fears the latter could face gas shortages this winter. 
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov called on Libyan authorities Wednesday to reverse the death sentences for five Bulgarian nurses and a Palestinian doctor found guilty of deliberately infecting Libyan children with HIV. 
A UN resolution on Iran's nuclear problem could be finalized soon, provided the Iran-6 accords are observed, Russia's foreign minister said Wednesday. 
Russia expects talks on the new strategic partnership agreement with the European Union to begin soon and is only waiting for EU negotiators to receive their own mandate, Russia's foreign minister said Wednesday. 



