The geopolitics of Ukraine’s gas supplies: the EU, Russia and Gazprom’s mysterious meters | beyondbrics

The geopolitics of Ukraine’s gas supplies: the EU, Russia and Gazprom’s mysterious meters | beyondbrics:

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Foreign media coverage of Ukraine has been dominated over the past year by the European Union’s repeated warnings: the signing of historic bilateral association and free trade agreements is conditional on the release of jailed opposition leader Yulia Tymoshenko.

But lost in the Tymoshenko buzz is a desperate plea from Kiev to Brussels: help us import more gas from EU markets at lower prices than those charged by Gazprom, the Russian gas giant.

Like the proposed free trade agreement, Kiev’s determination to break its dependence on increasingly costly Russian natural gas is part of a bigger ambition: to anchor this former Soviet republic to the EU, breaking it free of Moscow’s geopolitical pull."

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