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Hello, Just a few minutes ago: Ukraine has signed a deal allowing international monitors to check the flow of gas through its territory. Earlier on Saturday, representatives of Russia and the EU signed the document. The Czech Prime Minister, Mirek Topolanek, said the agreement clears the way for the resumption of gas supplies to Europe. […]

President of Russia – Medvedev made a statement last night about Ukraine gas deal and he told the Gazprom bosses it must be in writing. We have lost all trust in Ukraine for any and all adventures. Today Putin has taken the Presidents lead and pronounced after hearing that the EU has got verbal permission […]

gas transit, a representative of the European Commission’s Directorate-General for Energy and Transport, Filip Cornelis, has arrived in Ukraine, RBC Ukraine was told by the press secretary of the EC Representative Office in Ukraine, David Stulik. According to him, part of the group of experts is currently holding a meeting in Berlin to determine which […]

Looks like the pressure from Europe has started to have an effect on Ukraine. The EU gas monitors and Russian counterparts have finally been allowed into Ukraine. This has been a big hold up in turning the gas back on. Russia has said that EU or Ukraine Monitors can check any and all Russian gas […]

in the gas sphere for decades. The gas transportation system from the former USSR to Western Europe was built in the 1970s. All this time Russian gas companies have been fulfilling their contract obligations on time and without interruption. This happened even during the Cold War and the Cold War crisis. The Soviet and then […]

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January 7, 2009

their attempts to solve the gas conflict between Russia and Ukraine, Andrei Isayev, chairman of the State Duma committee on social policy and member of United Russia political party, told journalists on Saturday. He pointed out that the conflict does not merely involve certain companies and countries, but it also involved hundreds of citizens of […]

It is real simple: If Russia could bypass Ukraine with gas then Ukraine would toe the line and be a good transit country. But as it is, Ukraine knows that Russia has no other way to get all the gas to Europe and plays games with the pipe transit system. Russia at this point is […]