Russia Says Gas Flowing Again Into Ukraine
21/1/2009Excerpt of an interview for RFERL:
Ukraine has spent the past decade resisting attempts by Russia to acquire shares or influence in its gas-transit system.
Federico Bordonaro of the Italy-based energy-risk-assessment group equilibre.net said Putin’s remarks suggest the latest deal might include other concessions by Kyiv.
“We have to find out if Yulia Tymoshenko has promised something more to the Russians,” Bordonaro says. “I suspect that the Russians have linked the deal to something very political, because [the Russians] need to control Ukraine politically to a certain extent if they want to project their power to Eastern Europe and therefore remain a relevant power in Central-Eastern Europe.”
