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January 21, 2009
Gas War Over - Ukraine Agrees to
European Prices for Russian Gas
Charles Ganske


Although Gazprom made Ukrainian customers agree to pay European prices for Russian natural gas beginning in 2010, the state-owned gas export monopoly lost hundreds of millions and many Europeans are angry that Russia and Ukraine failed to resolve their price dispute before millions in Slovakia, Romania, Bulgaria and other countries suffered gas shortages during a very cold winter (Video by: Russia Today TV)

Click on the energy section of Russia Blog to read more about the dispute.

Posted by Charles Ganske on January 21, 2009 1:00 PM |



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Russia Blog presents up-to-date news, facts and commentary on the state of events in Russia and the former Soviet Union. The blog is managed by Yuri Mamchur, Director of Discovery Institute's Real Russia Project, a member of MBA class 2011 at Vanderbilt University's Owen Graduate School of Management, and a composer in his spare time.


 






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