Ukraine Will Revisit Gas Deal with Russia

Rigzone – The woman poised to return as Ukraine’s prime minister vowed Thursday to review a disputed deal with Russia on natural gas imports, setting the stage for a new confrontation that could disrupt the country’s economy and threaten supplies of Russian gas to Europe. The announcement came as three political parties once closely allied with President Viktor Yushchenko and then deeply divided formally signed an agreement to create a parliamentary
coalition and, eventually, a new government that would follow the pro-Western course the president has set. The agreement ended nearly three months of political paralysis, but it left unaddressed many of the issues that divided Yushchenko’s supporters after he took office in January 2005. Yulia Tymoshenko, who served as Yushchenko’s first prime minister for eight months last year, returned to the political oratory that made her hugely popular, even as it worried foreign investors and angered her allies in what became known as the “orange revolution.”
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