KAZAN, Russia, May 25 (UPI) -- A group of Canadian experts are in Tatarstan, an ethnic region in central European Russia, to help meet the year 2000 computer bug problem. Itar-Tass news agency said today the Canadian specialists will offer their own technology, ``which can be boiled down to replacing old (computer) boards,'' with new ones fitted with the appropriate chips. Tatarstan has over 20,000 computers, and, according to Albert Bikmullin, the chairman of the local academy for information technology, the Canadian program will cost the republic $1 million. The Canadian experts are plannig to show their Tatar colleagues how to carry out the program, meant to help the region's biggest companies in the chemical and oil industries, power engineering, and transport. Tatar Communications Minister Rinat Zalyalov says the region should have the millennium bug problem resolved by the end of the third quarter of 1999.  