BBC is reporting an agreement has been reached between Ukraine and Russia.
Europe will soon have two natural gas lines via North Africa, one from Morocco and the other from Algeria. Viva España!
They seem to conveniently omit that the market price of gas in europe is around $220, exactly what the Russians are asking for. Should they continue to subsidize a non-friendly (and, by the way, corrupt) government in Ukraine ? I'm not seeing anything wrong here with the Russians charging market prices, for one, and two, the Ukrainians knew that the price increase was coming for about 2 years now and are balking at it. I feel very little sympathy for them.