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Телеканал Вести, 25 November 2011,
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video.mail.ru/bk/vesti.ru/ecomony/58563.html ; see
also ‘Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin Says Moscow is Slashing the Price Minsk Has to Pay for Gas to Less than Half the Average Paid by Other European States’, Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty, Rferl.org, 25 November 2011, http://www.rferl.org/ articleprintview/24402392.html . 16 ‘Россия отменила пошлины на нефть для Белоруссии’, Lenta.ru, 9 December 2010, http://lenta. ru/news/2010/12/09/poshlina/ . 17
разбавители российского бюджета’, Novayagazeta, 19April 2012, http://www.novayagazeta.ru/ politics/52221.html . 18
15; italics added by the author]. 19 Foreign trade/GDP ratio as calculated at purchasing power parity rather than at exchange rates. The data for intra-Customs Union trade according to Комиссия Таможенного союза. Статистика взаимной торговли, http://www.tsouz.ru/db/stat/Pages/internal_ stat.aspx . 20
German Chancellor, not known for his geopolitical or geostrategic thinking, recognised in the context of the controversies over the outcome of the 2004 presidential elections: ‘At issue is not only Ukraine but this is also a matter of spheres of influence.’ Discussion in the German Bundestag concerning the situation in Ukraine on 24 November 2004; Bundestag.
www.bundestag.de . 21
attended Moscow State University where he received a doctorate in 1971 and moved to Ukraine on a permanent basis only in 1984. 22 ‘Ukraine’s Yanukovich Pledges to Work for EU Integration’, Euractiv.com, 1 March 2010, http://www. euractiv.com/europes-east/ukraines-yanukovich- pledges-work-eu-integration-news-299768 . 23
Controversial Association Agreement with Kyiv’, Europolitics, 30 March 2012, http://www.europolitics. info/europolitics/eu-initials-controversial- association-agreement-with-kyiv-art330509-46.html . The date of the actual signature of the Agreement remained uncertain. In all likelihood, it would not occur until after the 28 October 2012 parliamentary elections in Ukraine. 24 President Medvedev at a press conference in Svolkovo, ‘Ukrainian Integration with Europe Could Hamper Ties with Customs Union – Medvedev’, RIA Novosti, Rian.ru, 18 May 2011, http://en.rian.ru/ world/20110518/164092502.html [italics added by the author]. 25 In October 2011, a Ukrainian court sentenced Tymoshenko to seven years in prison for abuse of office in relation to the 2009 gas deal. The judge ruled that the former prime minister had exceeded her authority ‘for criminal ends’ by railroading the Ukrainian state gas corporation Naftogaz into signing the agreement with Gazprom. Not only did the EU and the United States react sharply to the verdict and the sentence but also Russia. Russian prime minister Vladimir Putin, speaking on a visit to Beijing, said it could jeopardize energy relations between the two former Soviet states, while the foreign ministry said it had detected an ‘obvious anti- Russian subtext’ in the outcome; ‘Ukraine Jails Tymoshenko for 7 Years, Irks EU, Russia’, Reuters, 11October 2011, http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/10/11/us-ukraine- tymoshenko-idUSL5E7LB0OQ20111011 .
11 26 ‘Харковское дополнение к газовому контракту Тимошенко-Путина. Текст документа, 22 апреля 2010’, Pravda.com.ua, 22 April 2010, http://www. pravda.com.ua/rus/articles/2010/04/22/4956389/ . 27
сплачувати 400 доларів за газ?’, Epravda.com. ua, 14 December 2011, http://www.epravda.com.ua/ columns/2011/12/14/309600/ . 28 ‘Showdown in Kiew’, Welt.de, 20 January 2012, http://
www.welt.de/print/die_welt/debatte/article13824429/ Showdown-in-Kiew.html . 29
30 For details see the analysis by Владимир Сапрыкин, “Северный поток”, “Южный поток” и другие подвиги “Газпрома”’, Зеркало недели, No. 46, 16 December 2011, http://zn.ua/ECONOMICS/severnyy_potok,_yuzhnyy_ potok_i_drugie_podvigi_gazproma-93952.html . In contrast to that, presumably to reinforce the tough negotiation stance, Gazprom chief Alexei Miller asserted in May 2011 in Brussels that his company planned to redirect 20 bcm of gas transported through Ukraine to Nord Stream; see ‘Ukraine faces huge gas transit losses by 2015’, Reuters report, 27 May 2011, Kyivpost.com, http://www.kyivpost.com/news/ business/bus_general/detail/105491/#ixzz1r9mKfIWW . 31 To explain these figures, Bohdan Sokolovsky, a Ukrainian gas expert and former energy envoy to ex-president Viktor Yushchenko, has stated that, in 2010, for instance, Ukraine received $3 billion in gas transit revenue for the 95 bcm it shipped to Europe but $1.6 billon was used to buy extra gas to support its compressor stations; ‘Ukraine faces huge gas transit losses by 2015’ [op. cit., fn. 30]. 32 ‘EBRD and EIB to Finance Modernisation of Ukraine’s Gas Transportation System’, LNGworldnews.com, 22 July 2009, http://www.lngworldnews.com/ebrd- and-eib-to-finance-modernization-of-ukraines-gas- transportation-system/ . 33 ‘Putin Condemns EU Deal on Ukraine Gas Pipelines’, Russiatoday.ru, 24 March 2009, http:// www.russiatoday.ru/Business/2009-03-24/Putin_ condemns_EU_deal_on_ Ukraine_gas_pipelines__. html
. 34 Viktor Yanukovych, ‘Speech at the 48th Munich Security Conference’, Securityconference.de, 5 February 2012, http://
www.securityconference.de/Viktor-Yanukovych.820.0.html . 35 ‘Putin und Asarow unterzeichneten sechs Abkommen über Zusammenarbeit’, Ukraine-nachrichten.de, 28 October 2010, http://ukraine-nachrichten.de/ putin-asarow-unterzeichneten-sechs-abkommen- %C3%BCber-zusammenarbeit_2814_politik ; ‘Russia-Ukraine Joint Venture UAC-Antonov Has Started Its Work’, Ruaviation.com, 3 June 2011, http://
www.ruaviation.com/news/2011/6/3/352/ . 36 Панченко, ‘Киев движется к экономической интеграции’ [op. cit., fn. 1]. 37 This is the opinion, for instance, of the first deputy chairman of the Ukrainian parliament’s committee for finance, banking, tax and customs policy; ibid. 38 ‘Ukraine May Join Customs Union as Full Member -- Security Council Secretary’, ITAR-TASS, Itar-tass. com, 27 February 2012, http://pda.itar-tass.com/en/ c154/353422.html . 39 Statement by Andrei Klyuyev at a EU-Ukraine conference in Brussels on 27 February 2012; ibid. 40 Štefan Füle, ‘Association Agreement in a Nutshell’, Download 1.29 Mb. Do'stlaringiz bilan baham: |
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