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Watching The World: Ukraine's 'fleet for gas' deal

05/03/2010
By Eric Watkins
Ukraine's opposition politicians were on the attack even before ink was dry on a new agreement between Kiev and Moscow for heavily discounted supplies of natural gas.Under the agreement, Moscow will sell gas to Kiev at a 30% discount in exchange for guarantees that Russia's Black Sea Fleet will be allowed to extend its base on Ukraine's Crimean Peninsula, at least until 2042. Russia's fleet has been based in Crimea for centuries, but under a post-Ukrainian independence agreement signed by former Russian President Boris Yeltsin, it would have had to leave in 2017.To some observers, the so-called "fleet-for-gas" agreement was the clearest sign of the new cohesion between Moscow an...
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