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...Live, learn and work as the Great Vladimir Lenin ordained," was a basic brainwashing slogan of the Soviet era. "Live, love and have sex as the Great Vladimir Putin does," is the parallel message of an off-the-wall Russian movie that hits DVD shops on St. Valentine Day. A Kiss - Off the Record is a big, sloppy, and cloying smooch to the Russian President - and to Russians enthralled by his uplifting image of the motherland. "It's a film on family values - and we want families to watch it at home together," the film's producer Anatoli Voropayev told...
...bill is based on changes in the complex mix of gas that Gazprom supplies Ukraine. Most of it has come from Central Asia, primarily Turkmenistan, with a minor share of more expensive Russian gas. These supplies are delivered through a company called Rosukrenergo, 50% of which is owned by Gazprom. But the cold winter has seen Central Asian suppliers reduce their supplies to Ukraine, increasing the Russian share of the mix to 25% - which has sharply raised the cost of the entire package...
...Gazprom wants to be paid what it says it is owed by Monday, or else it will turn off the Russian share of Ukraine's supply - to painful effect...
...pressure on Ukraine. Russia is unhappy at the restoration to power of Yuschenko's pro-NATO coalition following last year's snap legislative election. It is also irked by Ukraine's imminent accession to World Trade Organization membership, which would improve Kiev's ability to stand up to Russian blackmail by giving it the means to block Russia's own, coveted but much postponed entry into the organization...
...seeking to deepen existing divisions in Ukraine's anti-Moscow ruling coalition between Yushchenko and Premier Yuliya Tymoshenko. The two politicians who have waged a four-year struggle for leadership of the coalition take different positions on the gas issue: Tymoshenko demands that Ukraine raise transit prices for Russian gas and dump Rosukrenergo as a supplier. The latter campaign received a vigorous boost, late last month, when alleged crime boss Semyen Mogilevich, wanted by the U.S. on fraud and extortion charges, and long suspected of owning Rosukrenergo, was arrested in Moscow. Tymoshenko insists that Mogilevich stands behind the Rosukrenergo/Gazprom arrangement...