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RIA Novosty analyst Dmitry Babich discusses the reasons why the complicated gas dispute between Russia and Ukraine could be renewed.

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Tomas June 04, 2009, 14:15

I guess this interview is good for non-central europeans, or europeans in general. Russia actually made a ´preemptive strike´ by informing EU of problems in EU and that will make them look bad as usual. I hope Russia will realize more than ever that EU wants energy from Russia etc. yet EU wants to give nothing in return

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