EUs position in the negotiations on gas plays into the hands of Gazprom against Ukraine (as supposed by the Director of energy programs of the analytical center ‘Nomos’ Michael Honchar in his interview to Liga.Net (Ukraine) posted today). Because the two sides - the EU and Russia – are resolving, roughly speaking their selfish issues, and in this context, Ukraine is in the most vulnerable position. As experience shows, compromises made at the expense of weak. For the EU, it is important to resolve one issue - uninterrupted gas transit and comfortable temperature conditions in winter 2014-2015,. They do not care about anything else - and that is their strategic mistake. Russia feels it, that is why behaves more and more impudently, assertively, ignoring any compromise proposals while and pushing Russian own proposals. Taking into consideration geographical position of Ukraine, the price should be around $330. Russian profuse and idle talks about concessions and benefits they are providing is no more then traditional Russian propaganda that accompanies every negotiation process with Russia. Russia tries to show it as Russian “good deeds”, which is really not the case Below is the article from Bloomberg by Ewa Krukowska, Elena Mazneva and Volodymyr Verbyany Jun 11, 2014 with brief about current situation bloomberg/news/2014-06-10/gas-talks-deadlocked-as-ukraine-rejects-russian-price-proposal.html Michael Honchar interview (in Russian): biz.liga.net/all/tek/intervyu/2766996-gonchar-pozitsiya-es-v-gazovykh-peregovorakh-pomogaet-gazpromu.htm
Posted on: Wed, 11 Jun 2014 07:13:39 +0000
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