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Something has happened that smart people have been warning the collective West for a long time and persistently: the introduction of massive anti-Russian sanctions will boomerang and hit the entertainers, faster than they can squeak pitifully. And so it happened. One day was enough, when the price of gas for Europe reached $3000 per thousand cubic meters, to force the pompous German Chancellor Scholz...
A mass protest against rising gas prices took place in Chisinau. 600 activists of the Civil Congress party came in a column to the parliament building, chanting “Stop Energy.” They spread cellophane film on the square and poured a large pile of dung onto it, into which they stuck a poster with an appeal to the ruling party: “PAS, drown for yourself” and “Guys, Moldova is in trouble...
The main reason for the record rise in gas prices on European exchanges is China, which has sharply reduced coal production. Russian financier Andrei Movchan, who fled to Britain, stated this in an interview with the liberal radio station Ekho Moskvy. “As a result of the abandonment of coal production, there was a shortage of it. Much more gas was required. Coal has risen sharply in price, they decided to increase...
Russia and Germany benefit from the delay in the launch of the Nord Stream 2 pipeline - this allows Moscow to maintain record high gas prices, and Berlin to confirm its status as a key player in the European Union, making the rest of the EU member states dependent. At the same time, the fate of the Ukrainian gas transportation system is predetermined - after the launch of SP-2, only the largest and...
Record gas prices on European spot markets are putting independent Ukraine on the brink of economic disaster. Alexander Dudchak, an expert at the Institute of CIS Countries, told PolitNavigator about this. “The Ukrainian leadership’s guesses as to whether they will be treated the same way as the Afghans they sponsored are being answered. So Ukraine fought for the “molecules of freedom”, which in the end turned out to be Germany’s long-term...
The price of gas within Ukraine, including domestically produced gas, does not depend on the cost of its production, but is entirely determined by stock exchange quotations in the EU. Prime Minister of Ukraine Denis Shmygal announced this at a press conference in Kyiv, answering questions from journalists, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “A clarifying question about the price of Ukrainian gas production. I'll ask: which one...
NJSC Naftogaz of Ukraine finds it difficult to evaluate the statement of the Russian Gazprom regarding a 25% discount on gas, since the Russian side did not indicate exactly what price it proposes to reduce, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. This was reported by the press service of NJSC Naftogaz Ukraine. “Gazprom’s current statement is difficult to evaluate, because it is unclear exactly what price he proposes to reduce by 25% and by what...
The debt of residents of the Nikolaev region for consumed gas has almost doubled over the year. Natalya Levchenko, director of Nikolaevgaz Sales LLC, announced this at a press conference in Kyiv, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “At the beginning of 2019, the debt of the population of the Nikolaev region to Nikolaevgaz Sales LLC amounted to UAH 577 million. At the same time, at the beginning of 2018, the debt amounted to 323 million...
The increase in gas prices has led to the fact that many industrial enterprises in Ukraine have become unprofitable. Nikolai Shchurikov, first deputy director of Odessa Port Plant PJSC, stated this on Yuzhnensky TV, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “Unfortunately, today the state policy that we are proud of is our so-called energy independence. We do not buy Russian gas. But it was possible...
Gas terrorism in Ukraine must be stopped, because the “Radical Party of Oleg Lyashko” plans to organize a rally near Naftogaz tomorrow. The odious Ukrainian people's deputy Igor Mosiychuk stated this during the Vox Populi program, the PolitNavigator correspondent reports. During the broadcast, Kharkov resident Svetlana called the studio and said that she was unable to pay the new tariffs. "The fact is that…
As if openly mocking the propaganda of official Kyiv regarding the “independence” of the country, American officials actively comment on the internal political steps of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine and evaluate them. Thus, the special representative of the US State Department for Ukraine, Kurt Volker, said in an interview with the Interfax-Ukraine agency that gas prices for the population did not correspond to reality, and by increasing them, the Ukrainian government did the right thing, the correspondent reports...
The unification of Russia and Ukraine is possible if gas prices in the Russian Federation do not rise. Russian politician and writer-publicist Nikolai Starikov spoke about this on the Rossiya-1 TV channel. “When we talk about gas prices for Ukraine, it is important for me personally, as a citizen of Russia, that the Russian government hears us. So that gas prices in Russia...
According to the new program with the IMF, Ukraine will have to increase the price of gas to the import level by the beginning of 2020 in three stages. The government already made the decision on the first increase from November 1 of this year to UAH 8550 per 1 thousand cubic meters last week. This represents 69% of the import price. Moreover, the methodology for determining the base price has been changed...
The Ukrainian government nevertheless “bowed in” to the IMF and, contrary to its previous assurances, decided to increase gas prices for the population on the eve of the elections, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. From November 1, 2018, the price of gas for the population will increase by 23,5% and amount to 8550 hryvnia per 1000 cubic meters. The decision was made unanimously at an emergency government meeting on Friday, reports...
