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Poland boycotts German goods? [266]
We have send several proposals and they were rejected.
False! You GOT several possibilites offered to take part, YOU rejected!
The way it sounds from the polish site you like to use the pipeline as a kind of hostage against the Russians AND the Germans!
Thats another thing, Russia bumped the prices as a means of political reprisal,
Nope...
It was noted by Pascal Lamy of the World Trade Organisation that all Post-Soviet states that buy gas from Gazprom must pay today's market prices for their energy needs in order to improve the efficiency of their economies
And Ukraine didn't wanted to pay market prices...because:
Russia supplies about 8 % of Ukraine's annual gas requirements.[citation needed] This gas had been supplied at heavily subsidized prices - about US$50 per 1,000 cubic meters compared to the market rate of about US$230 per 1,000 cubic meters.[citation needed]
Of course Ukraine wanted to pay further only the heavily subsidized prices and not the market prices, understandable.
But also understandable that Russia said
"Njet!"Either you are an independent country or not...
Now imagine that:
On 26 December 2005, Prime Minister of Ukraine Yuriy Yekhanurov confirmed that public-utility prices for gas are lower in Ukraine than those in Russia, and said that a change is to be made,...
Gas was cheaper in Ukraine which has to import it but in Russia who exports it???
Don't sell me the "pooor abused Ukrainians"...