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Foreign media coverage of Ukraine has been dominated over the past year by the European Union’s repeated warnings: the signing of historic bilateral association and free trade agreements is conditional on the release of jailed opposition leader Yulia Tymoshenko.

But lost in the Tymoshenko buzz is a desperate plea from Kyiv to Brussels: help us import more gas from EU markets at lower prices than those charged by Gazprom, the Russian gas giant.

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