Ukraine and Russia are having another gas war:
So it continues...as soon as a government that Russia doesn't like gets elected, they start up another gas row.
*sighs*
Oh, and the Party of Regions remains a PITA, even if its one that's fracturing. maybe.
Russia and Ukraine were locked in a gas dispute Wednesday after Moscow cut 50 percent of supplies to the neighbouring state, leading Kiev to warn of possible disruption for the European Union.
Late on Tuesday the Russian gas monopoly Gazprom said that if Kiev did not return to the negotiating table Moscow could make a further reduction in gas supplies to the ex-Soviet neighbour, in addition to a 50 percent cut already implemented over Monday and Tuesday.
The dispute centres on a 600 million dollar (395 million euro) debt that Gazprom claims from the western neighbour.
Ukraine's Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko has been insisting on the abolition of a murky intermediary company that has been handling Ukrainian payments for gas from both Russia and ex-Soviet Turkmenistan, RosUkrEnergo.
She has also regularly insisted on a review of prices paid by Russia for transit of gas across Ukrainian territory to EU nations to the west.
So it continues...as soon as a government that Russia doesn't like gets elected, they start up another gas row.
*sighs*
Oh, and the Party of Regions remains a PITA, even if its one that's fracturing. maybe.
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