In Ukraine, the debtors find some of Gazprom and began paying $ 1.3 billion

Rules igry09-10-2007 Today, Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovych, armed with the directives of President Victor Yushchenko arrived in Moscow to meet with Russian Prime Minister Viktor Zubkov. The official version - for the preparation of the next committee meeting of the Yushchenko-Putin ", created in 2005 to discuss bilateral relations. Neafishiruemoy, but by all accounts, the main purpose of the visit was to discuss the price of gas supplies to Ukraine next year, and especially the question of "live money" - Ukraine's debt to Gazprom at $ 1.3 billion for the gas supplied. To repay debts, the bigger is certainly not desirable. More so that the gas price for Ukraine, despite the anti-Russian positions Yushchenko's team on a number of domestic and foreign policy in 2007 was $ 130 per thousand cubic meters - against about $ 263, which receive gas consumers in the EU. Earlier, the Ukrainian government even denied the information on the country's debt to Russia, stating that the debt is not public, the amount of debt are overstated. Head of Fuel and Energy Minister Yuriy Boyko referred to the fact that Russia should not Ukraine, and the intermediary firms RosUkrEnergo and UkrGaz-Energo "(SP, created by RosUkrEnergo and Ukrainian national company" Naftogaz ").