Viktor Yanukovych, Ukraine’s president, on Dec. 19 said the “road is open” to bringing in Russia’s Gazprom – and possibly European companies – as partners to manage and modernise Kiev’s strategic natural gas transportation pipeline.
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Financial Times: Yanukovych dangles possible Russian role in managing Ukraine’s pipeline
A Ukrainian student lights a flare as students march during an opposition protest rally at Independence Square in Kiev on December 19, 2013. President Viktor Yanukovych told the West today to stay out of Ukraine's political crisis, as Russian President Vladimir Putin said Moscow had offered Kiev a multi-billion dollar bailout package to help a \"brotherly country\" out of trouble. TOPSHOTS/AFP PHOTO / YURIY DYACHYSHYN
