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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 9101

4 January 2006
GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/energy
Moscow cuts off gas supplies to Ukraine - Temporary interruption of gas supplies leaves EU 'concerned' - Andris Piebalgs convenes Gas Coordination Group meeting

Brussels, 03/01/2006 (Agence Europe) - Following the breakdown of talks last week between Ukraine and Russia to try and reach agreement on the price of gas exports to Russia (Ukraine has been in dispute for several weeks with Gazprom, the Russian state-owned gas company, after Gazprom announced it was quadrupling the price of Russian gas for Ukraine to bring it in line with market prices, see Europe 9100), on Sunday Russia carried out its threat and cut off gas supplies to Ukraine. A...

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