Gas...G8 summit
ITAR-TASS reports about possibility to sell 50% of the shares of ‘BelTransGaz’ (state owner of the gas pipe) in exchange for some assets of Gazprom. This deal can help to supply Belarus with cheap gas in spite of rise of official gas cost.
So, gas question can be switched from the political sphere to economic one without damage to Russian geo-policy and Belarusian economy. Russia will be seem pure before G8 summit this summer.
Gazprom gas G8 summit
So, gas question can be switched from the political sphere to economic one without damage to Russian geo-policy and Belarusian economy. Russia will be seem pure before G8 summit this summer.
Gazprom gas G8 summit
posted by Yahor at 7:21 PM
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Dear Yahor,
It is interesting that you think the gas question might be turned from a geopolitical to a purely economic issue due to a sellout of BelTranzGaz.
However, does not the Kremlin equate geopolitics with geoeconomics to a degree so high that they may have a difficulty separating the two?
As for the Petersburg G8-summit, I fear that energy and the general Russian behaviour will be part of the tacit agenda. Russian action has simply been too grave to repair the damages in so short a time no matter what Moscow might do. Trust or distrust in Russia as an energy supplier has simply and decidedly been put on the Western agenda for the foreseeable future.
Yours,
Vilhelm
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