, said Putin. It's one thing to subsidize our friends and neighbors who, like us, are emerging from the complicated situation of a planned economy, and another thing, for example, to subsidize Indian business in Ukraine. We should understand the conditions that we live in.
Gazprom practically neutralized its competitor this week by agreeing to buy 30 billion cu. m. of Turkmen gas at $65 per 1000 cu. m. In the first quarter of 2006, 15 billion cu. m. will be delivered to Russia
as of January 1, natural gas will cost Ukraine $230 per 1000 cu. m., or it would cost nothing, because there wouldn't be any