Magazine 2/2006
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The role of intermediary companies in Russian-Ukrainian relations and implications for the countries of Central Europe
Since the beginning of the 1990s, intermediary companies have been operating in the sphere of natural gas purchasing between Turkmenistan, the Russian concern Gazprom, the Ukrainian side represented by Naftohaz Ukrainy company and Europe. Their background brings factor of corruption, interconnection with interest groups and more or less reiterating names into natural gas trade…