PETROPAVLOVSK-KAMCHATSKY, July 23 (Itar-Tass) -- Brown bears hamper normal work of geologists of the Koryak geology mining company on theKamchatka Peninsula.

KIEV, July 23 (Itar-Tass) -- The price for gas for Ukraine will remain 179.5 dollars a thousand cubic metres this year, Gazprom board head Alexei Miller said during the meeting with Ukrainian Presi

MOSCOW, July 23 (Itar-Tass) -- The joint staff of the Collective Security Treaty Organisation in Moscow on Wednesday will sum up theresults of special operations to prevent illegal migration.

VILNIUS, July 23 (Itar-Tass) -- The main theme of the three-dayofficial visit by Georgian Defence Minister Zaza Gogava to Lithuania will be prospects for the Trans-Caucasian republic to join NATO.

MOSCOW, July 23 (Itar-Tass) -- Five Tu-22 supersonic bombers willconduct practical firings at a range in the Irkutsk Region during flight and tactical exercises of the Russian long-range air force.

KRASNODAR, July 23 (Itar-Tass) -- A representative office of the Italian embassy department for trade exchange development opened inKrasnodar on Tuesday.

NEW DELHI, July 23 (Itar-Tass) -- India and Russia are pondering thepossibility of joint production of a prospective tank, said speakers at an international seminar held in New Delhi on Tuesday at

TBILISI, July 23 (Itar-Tass) -- Georgia will send 400 peacekeepers to Afghanistan by the end of this year, Deputy Defense Minister Batu Kutelia said in Tbilisi on Tuesday.

By Itar-Tass World Service writer Lyudmila Alexandrova.

VILNIUS, July 23 (Itar-Tass) - The website for combating corruptionhas been opened in Lithuania. It is possible to publish on it information about bribes and officials taking bribes.