http://www.democraticunderground.com/1014722340Oh my.
I'm really having to dig today, for inventory for the DUmpster.
dipsydoodle (38,668 posts) Sat Feb 8, 2014, 02:55 PM
No Russian Aid to Ukraine If Gas Bill Unpaid - Minister
BOCHAROV RUCHEI, February 8 (RIA Novosti) – Ukraine will receive the second tranche of Russia’s $15 billion in financial aid only after it pays its gas arrears, the Russian finance minister said Saturday.
“We are waiting for the Ukrainian side to pay its gas bill, quite a hefty one. The payment was due in late January, but hasn’t been made to date,†Anton Siluanov said.
The minister said Russia was to receive $2.7 billion from Ukraine by January 25 under a repayment plan for debts accumulated in previous years.
“As far as I know, this year’s gas payments have been made according to schedule,†Siluanov said.
Crisis-hit Ukraine currently owes Russia about $3.3 billion in unpaid natural gas bills, Russia’s state-owned gas monopoly Gazprom said Monday, in an apparent reminder that the long-running dispute over fuel supplies has not been solved by a recent price cut agreement.
Read more: http://en.ria.ru/world/20140208/187343927/No-Russian-Aid-to-Ukraine-If-Gas-Bill-Unpaid---Minister.html
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Oh my again, the memories this evokes, from twenty years ago.
The Russians apparently haven't learned--and they've had hundreds and hundreds of years to learn--that Ukrainians
never pay their bills.
I dunno why that is, but not paying bills seems the Ukrainian national character.
<<<likes Ukrainians, better than Russians even, but am sorely aware of their faults too.
Ukraine probably hasn't paid its natural gas bill from when I was over there.
One time, without meaning to, I got into a heated argument on freerepublic with members from Ukraine, or of Ukrainian derivation. I'd thought it rather unsporting of Ukraine to not pay its bills.
Little was I prepared for the fury the comment unleashed.
