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Ukraine Interview

'Ukraine can afford European prices for gas'

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Published 11 January, 2009, 16:25

Ukraine should be able to afford gas at European prices, says Victor Sergeyev, a political analyst and the director of the Centre of Global Problems at Moscow State University of International Relations.

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