{"id":46494,"date":"2009-11-21T12:05:00","date_gmt":"2009-11-21T17:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/russia-and-ukraine-avert-a-natural-gas-crisis-2009-11"},"modified":"2009-11-21T12:05:00","modified_gmt":"2009-11-21T17:05:00","slug":"russia-and-ukraine-avert-a-natural-gas-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/46494","title":{"rendered":"Russia And Ukraine Avert A Natural Gas Crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Despite fears of a deep, and cold winter &#8212; one made worse by a ravaging flu in the Ukraine &#8212; it appears Russia&#8217;s neighbor will be getting natural gas this year, despite its financial problems.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/sg.news.yahoo.com\/afp\/20091120\/tts-russia-ukraine-eu-energy-gas-diploma-509a08e.html\">AFP<\/a>: Earlier this year, Russia also agreed to reduce the volume of gas Kiev must acquire this year without imposing fines. That agreement however has yet to be put in writing.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Ukraine&#8217;s Naftogaz has said it is meant to buy 52 billion cubic metres of Russian gas next year but may only need 27 bcm.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">It could have faced potentially crippling multibillion-dollar fines if it did not pay for all the gas it had contracted.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Russia has repeatedly warned of Ukraine&#8217;s financial problems in the past weeks.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Putin also said Moscow agreed with Kiev&#8217;s decision to boost the tariffs Russia pays for the transit of Russian gas to Europe through Ukraine by 60 percent from next year.<\/p>\n<p>More background from Russia Today:<\/p>\n<p>\n<object width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/5JDwrQnfFLw&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;\" \/><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/5JDwrQnfFLw&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/embed><\/object>\n<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/russia-and-ukraine-avert-a-natural-gas-crisis-2009-11#comments\">Join the conversation about this story &#187;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>See Also:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/ukraine-black-lung-plague-kills-12-in-one-day-2009-11\">Ukraine Black Lung Epidemic Kills 12 In A Single Day<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/the-emerging-ukraine-russia-energy-crisis-2009-11\">The Emerging Ukraine-Russia Energy Crisis<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/swine-flu-outbreak-in-ukraine-claims-144-lives-2009-11\">Swine Flu Outbreak In Ukraine Claims 144 Lives<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Despite fears of a deep, and cold winter &#8212; one made worse by a ravaging flu in the Ukraine &#8212; it appears Russia&#8217;s neighbor will be getting natural gas this year, despite its financial problems. AFP: Earlier this year, Russia also agreed to reduce the volume of gas Kiev must acquire this year without imposing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46494","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46494","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46494"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46494\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}