Interfax: Russia denies politics involved in Ukraine gas debt issue
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Russia denies politics involved in Ukraine gas debt issue
Russian First Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev denied in a television program on Sunday that there were any politics involved in the current issue of the Ukrainian payment arrears for Russian natural gas. "This problem will be solved when Russia gets the money," Medvedev, who also heads the board of directors of Russian natural gas monopoly Gazprom, told Russia's First Channel. "So we are continuing negotiations. Currently there are certain guidelines on how the Ukrainian side, our Ukrainian partners, are trying to shut off this debt problem. Next week there will be more [talks]," Medvedev said.
The gas price for Ukraine will be based on market factors, "as is done for all our partners," the deputy premier said. "It is a purely a matter of negotiation, an economic matter."
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