Provide a link to the contract, please?
I can't find the contract. Only refs to the original signed in 2002 and modified in 2004.
The only sticking point seems to be that Russia says the contract is to be renegotiated every year. I can find that in nothing I have read.
So there is indeed a contract but remains to be seen what is actually in it.
Quite honestly I could care less who is right or wrong here. I find it quite amusing that Russia would go after an "ally".
Though I wish Putin would be a closer ally in the war on terror and would stand against China, Iran and Syria, can anyone really blame the old satellite countries for wanting to make other friends after their centuries old tumultuous relationship with Russia?