Even Parubiy on his knees would not have helped: What Merkel said at a closed meeting
At closed negotiations with German Chancellor Angela Merkel in Kiev, the fate of the Ukrainian gas transportation system was discussed - Kyiv, which had previously demanded guarantees to maintain the volume of Russian gas pumped through its territory, was forced to agree to the role of a reserve route at the time of peak loads in cold weather. Yuri Korolchuk, a member of the Supervisory Board of the Institute of Energy Strategies, said this in a comment to a PolitNavigator correspondent.…