Dear Price for Attitude

Dec. 16, 2005
Kommersant

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Today, Vladimir Putin will receive in Sochi another president of an allied country – Armenia. The meeting with Robert Kocharyan, just like yesterday’s conversation with Lukashenko, will be about natural gas. Besides the president, the meeting will be also attended by Anatoly Chubais, Chairman of United Energy Systems of Russia, and Alexei Miller, Chairman of Gasprom. The sides will discuss conditions of supply of Russian gas and prices for energy sources. Moscow had developed personal package of discount payments for electricity and gas for Yerevan - just like for Minsk. Armenia deserved discounts because it never complained about a Russian military base in Gyumri. Beside, Robert Kocharyan gave agreement to relocate another Russian military base from Georgia to Armenia. According to Kommersant’s information, the presidents will discuss how to secure supplies of energy sources from Russia to Armenia if Georgia, which unhappy with price increases, would try to block them.
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