Posted on 04/05/2014 6:56:40 AM PDT by Fennie
(AGI) Kiev, April 5 - Ukraine has declared that they will not pay the price of almost 500 dollars per cubic metre for Russian gas, announced recently by the Russian gas consortium Gazprom.
Kiev has also accused Moscow of conducting 'economic' aggression'. "Political presure will prove useless, we are not accepting the price of 500 dollars", Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenuk said during a cabinet meeting.
He added: "Russia has not succeeded in conquering Ukraine with military aggression, so now they are opting for an economic aggression."
(Excerpt) Read more at agi.it ...
I think America should borrow the money from China to pay Ukraine’s debts. After all, it only seems fair.
Ha, I nailed it weeks ago this was going to happen. Wait until the EU gets their new rates from Putin. They don't like it, he'll shut 'em off.
Ha, I nailed it weeks ago this was going to happen. Wait until the EU gets their new rates from Putin. They don't like it, he'll shut 'em off.
Maybe the thug government could sell eastern Ukraine to Russia to pay for their fuel.
Comrade, you have it backwards. The Russians are the aggressors here and the thug government is Putin’s!!!
And when Russia cuts the gas, is the US going to start airlifting supplies??
Russia is planning/running new lines that bypass the Ukraine and should be operational or nearly so by now - how long before they just stop supplying the existing lines?
This maybe a great market for US Coal.
Russia owes Ukraine compensation for Crimea and for pirating the entire Ukrainian Navy. They are no position to the claim moral high ground.
You're thinking of the old USA.
The new USA will draw a line in the sand, give a belligerent speech, and lead from behind.
Are you even trying to be objective?
Russia pays Ukraine to transport oil thru Ukrainian pipelines to Europe. Ukraine can raise the price of transport Russian.
A: no
It doesn’t seem that Ukraine has much of a choice —
Russia has them by the short hairs and their only choice is to turn the thermostat down or go begging to Europe for money to pay Russia or raise the price of what they sell to Russia.
That includes all the nukes that were there.
I reject the price set by the Cable company for service. This is great,,,, didn’t know you could do this.
According to a report in Kommersant-Ukraine, the finance ministry of Washington’s stooges in Kiev who are pretending to be a government has prepared an economic austerity plan that will cut Ukrainian pensions from $160 to $80 so that Western bankers who lent money to Ukraine can be repaid at the expense of Ukraine’s poor.
Netflix/Roku.
You won't look back.
The United States has a "Thug" government. Should we just allow Russia to take Alaska back because they got ripped off by Secretary Seward?
Russia has a much worse Thug Government than the Ukraine. Russia thug government is one of the worst both now and throughout the last 100 years.
Russia's thug govenment managed to murder about 10,000,000 Ukrainians when the thug was Stalin. Putin's moral compass is no more pure than Joseph Stalin's.
Get a hold of them next December and see if they've reconsidered.
Europe has the same problem...shutting down coal and nuclear plants, but failing to switch immediatly to windmills and pond scum. With pond scum in the summer and windmill power only when the wind blows what could possibly go wrong? Other than a European depression for example. But so environmentally sound!
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