By Alessandra Prentice
Ukraine, locked in a longstanding pricing row with Russia over gas, hopes to sign a memorandum with Moscow on supplies that will run until the end of March 2016, its energy minister said on Wednesday.
Russia and its ex-Soviet neighbour agreed last year on a “winter package” for supplies with a price discount of $100 per thousand cubic metres and advance payments, but that accord expired on Tuesday and has yet to be replaced.
“A memorandum will be signed for the whole period until the end of the heating season in 2016,” Energy Minister Volodymyr Demchyshyn said.
He gave no details …read more
Source: Cyprus Mail
