Belarus: Does Minsk Stand A Chance In Gas War With Gazprom?

RFERL ^ | December 28, 2006 | Jan Maksymiuk

[sergey1973]

December 28, 2006 (RFE/RL) -- Gazprom and Minsk have managed to agree on one thing -- Belarus's asking price of $2.5 billion for a 50 percent stake in the state pipeline operator Beltranshaz.

Gazprom spokesman Sergei Kupriyanov has confirmed that concession to Belarus:

"We have agreed to the most comfortable conditions for Belarus," Kupriyanov said on December 27. "We want to obtain 50 percent [of Beltranshaz], not control over it, and we are [offering] a price that is even higher than the market one."

[sergey1973]

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[Red Badger]

Minsk in Pinsk with Gazprom winsk?.......

[GSlob]

In the 12th century Japan there was produced a 'shunga' print with the title loosely translatable as "gas war". In it there were two mounted samurai, one in pursuit of another. The pursued one was standing in his stirrups and letting go such a gas exhaust that it knocked his pursuer clean out of the saddle. Thus, the question of who would be left standing in 2006 gas war has to be answered: it depends on the diet.