As Moscow and Kiev sought a compromise

New Year here at all is almost here, and what this means, except for trees, bad workmen, beating on zagirlyandennym windows and an abundance of drunk in public transport? Of course, the conflict between Russia and Ukraine for transit of Russian fuel, whether gas or oil. Last year, the scandals of the first, this obviously was the turn of the second. Transit Agreement for the year 2010 did not want to sign, so that the Ministry of Russia on Dec. 28 even had to send a letter to the European Commission with the notice of the possible disruption of supplies of black gold across the southern branch of the Druzhba pipeline. If the notice was not a false alarm, it would suffer a little, Hungary, the Czech Republic and Slovakia. The reason this message has become a tradition of Kiev's intention to raise the prices for transit, but the figures mentioned by the Ukrainian side, "Transneft" - monopoly of domestic pipeline, considered "unacceptable" that a year ago would have caused a rare glow of drama involving the mass media and uncompromising mutual charges. But Ukraine is not very up to fat - the IMF refuses to give credit, and the European Commission in charge of cleanliness of transit cases, you never know what they were in their committees will decide if they will interrupt oil supplies, and how it will affect the decision of the IMF loan, it is not known , there's still and the election just around the corner. In general, Kiev came to a compromise with Moscow, however, the conditions of a compromise is not completely clear. The Russian side claims that Naftogaz agreed to leave rates alone for the next year, but Ukraine claims that Russia has agreed to increase the price of transit as much as 30%. So go and then figure it out, Tolley's imperial ambitions interfere with someone confess toli craving for international affirmation makes someone lie. But both sides in agreement about the amount of transit - it will retain last year's level at 15 million tons. Okay, most importantly, that the agreement still signed it.