Viktor Yanukovich, Ukraine’s president, on Thursday 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.
His
comments, cautious though they may be, have fuelled lingering
suspicions that a backroom deal is in place to give Gazprom a stake in
the vast Ukrainian pipeline which still pumps the lion’s share of its
Europe-bound exports. Such, say the rumours and claims of inside
sources, was the trade-off attached to Tuesday’s $20bn bailout
Yanukovich inked in Moscow.
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