Winter is upon us, and the last couple of days have seen rumors rumbling about the possibility of another gas interruption - due to payment problems at Ukraine's end. It is alleged that Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko alerted Vladimir Putin to the fact that President Viktor Yushchenko was impeding 'the normal partnership between the Central Bank, which had the gold reserves at disposal, and the government', thus jeopardizing payment.
Robert Amsterdam's blog post about the possibility of a another gas standoff, which appears unlikely. As the post notes, the gas issue is another arena where the prime minister and president are arguing over. However, the post notes that the rhetoric probably won't turn into action that could trigger a new gas war. The post presents several reasons on why there won't be a new conflict including the fact that Yushchenko will soon be out of job and thus irrelevant.
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