Stan---am making a difference between demands on Russia itself and demands on a Russian company tied to the WTO and EU and international legal delivery contracts. Have noticed that Russian companies definitely pay attention to their contracts and what they must do in order to do business say in the EU. In the case of the EU anti trust side they will request that payments to be made by any EU country or company be paid first to the EU and the EU will notify Gazprom that the following is still owed---if they balk and do not deliver then the fines go higher and they are then in violation of their own contracts and liable for further penalties.
Yesterday something came up on both the Kiev Post or on Interfax that indicates a potential issue covered by the anti trust side investigations---meaning is the delivered amount actually accurate as per delivery contract.
The Ukrainians are discovering after measuring their strategic gas storage which is only fed by Gazprom that they are 13B cubic meters short of what the delivered amount stated by Gazprom.
This was a point also in the anti trust charges---it took the EU over two years of intensive pipe deliveries investigations to see this type of shortages in other countries especially in the former eastern countries.
22:12 Ukraine cannot trace missing 13 Bln cu m of natural gas - PM
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