N Ossetian authorities promise RUB 1 mln for info related to recent

VLADIKAVKAZ, September 14 (Itar-Tass) -- Authorities of Russia's North
Caucasian republic of North Ossetia have promised to pay one million
roubles for any information that might help spot those who were involved
in the terrorist attack at Vladikavkaz' central bazaar on September 9.
Local media said on Monday the republic's authorities asked people who
have any relevant information to contact the local security or law
enforcement agencies.
A suicide bomber activated an explosive device planted in a Volga
motor car in front of the entryway to the central bazaar of Vladikavkaz on
September 9. The explosion killed 17 people, 190 received injuries of
varying severity.

.Azerbaijan, Georgia, Romania to sign declaration on liquefied gas
project.

BAKU, September 14 (Itar-Tass) -- Presidents of Georgia and Romania,
Mikhail Saakashvili and Traian Basescu, and Hungarian Prime Minister
Viktor Orban on Tuesday will meet Azerbaijan's President Ilham Aliyev at
the latter's residence Gyanjlik to discuss the project of pumping
liquefied gas from Azerbaijan to Romania via Georgia's territory.
The meeting is expected to yield a declaration of political support to
the four-billion gas project AGRI, or Azerbaijan-Georgia-Romania
Interconnector. The agreement on the project was reached in April 2010,
when the three governments signed a cooperation memorandum in the area of
liquefied gas and its transportation. A month later, the sides met in
Tbilisi to sign a protocol on the establishment of a joint venture to
implement the project that provides for Azerbaijan's gas transportation to
Georgia's Black Sea coast, where it would be liquefied to be further
shipped by sea to the Romanian port of Constanta. In Constanta, the gas
will be de-liquefied to be supplied to consumers in Romania and other
European countries. A relevant infrastructure will be constructed in
Georgia and Romania under the project.
Preliminary estimates put the gas supplies volumes along the would-be
route at up to 8 billion cubic meters a year. Exact figures will be
available after the feasibility studies are over (within six months).
On Monday, Azerbaijan's, Georgia's and Romania's energy ministers met
in Baku to look into the details of the declaration to be signed on
Tuesday.
Baku sees the new gas transportation route as a major component of its
diversification policy. Currently, Azerbaijan transports its gas to
Russia, Georgia, Turkey, Greece, and Iran. Baku believes the country has
enough gas to supply to more countries. Its recoverable gas reserves are
estimated at 2 trillion cubic meters and might reach up to 5 trillion.

.RF deputy defence min arrives in Prague to discuss issues of WWII
burials.

MOSCOW, September 14 (Itar-Tass) -- Russian Deputy Defence Minister
Colonel General Dmitry Bulgakov on Tuesday leaves for a two-day working
visit to the Czech republic to discuss the condition of Soviet and Czech
WWII burials in the two countries, a Russian defence spokesman told
Itar-Tass.
According to the spokesman, issues of due maintenance of Soviet and
Czech war-time burials will be raised at a next, eighth, meeting of the
joint intergovernmental commission that was set up to implement the
bilateral agreement on maintenance of war-time burials.
"The commission will discuss the condition of Soviet (Russian) war
burials in the Czech republic, and Czech burials in Russia, and a number
of other issues," the spokesman said.
There are 650 Soviet (Russian) war-time burials in the Czech republic.
A total of 26,252 Soviet soldiers and officers are buried there, of whom
10,038 have been identified. Early in the year, the Russian Defence
Ministry opened an office at the Russian embassy in Prague to monitor the
condition of Russian war-time burials and to identify Soviet soldiers who
died on the territory of the Czech republic during WWII.

.Ukraine insist free trade zone agreement with EU be signed on equal
terms.

DONETSK, September 14 (Itar-Tass) -- An agreement on a free trade zone
between Ukraine and the European Union should be signed only on equal
terms, the Ukrainian cabinet's information department said on Tuesday
quoting Prime Minister Nikolai Azarov as saying during his meeting with
Bulgarian parliament speaker Tsetska Tsacheva.
"We insist that the agreement on a free trade zone should have no
restrictions and give equal possibilities to both sides. Either we have a
free trade zone agreement based on equal principles or there will be no
agreement at all. We have global partners to maintain trade relations with
on the WTO terms," Azarov said and added that his country hoped Bulgaria
would support Ukraine's course towards integration into Europe,
particularly as concerns a would-be free trade zone between Ukraine and
the European Union.
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