Features of the national debt, or Turn off - the mother of learning

Oil Resursy11-02-2008 Features of the national debt, or Turn off - the mother of learning to sit in the gas debts "has become a tradition for Ukraine. Indeed, why do not owe their neighbors, if a country is a transit country for their gas? It is always possible to exert pressure, to threaten Europe. However, Gazprom intends to punish the country deviators, which also has affected his daughter »Rosukrenergo. Recently in the Russian capital, the Ukrainian delegation has arrived in the person of the company's management "Naftogaz Ukraine". Today at a meeting with Gazprom on the agenda will be a question of gas debt fraternal state, for which repayment of Ukraine had only one day. Recall that the natural gas monopoly, strongly insists on the off gas to Ukraine if it does not pay the debt of about $ 500 million for already "settled" the country's Russian gas in the volume of 1.5 billion cubic meters. m. The total debt of the country amounts to 1.5 billion dollars. How the debt of half a billion dollars? The fact that in 2007 Ukraine will get Central Asian, in particular the Turkmen gas, which costs this year increased to 179.5 dollars per thousand cubic meters. m. However, since January, its supply has decreased due to severe cold in the region, and Rosukrenergo (50% stake in Gazprom) has to ship to Ukraine and Russian gas, which costs almost twice the price of Central Asian - 314.7 USD per thousand cubic. pm