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Ukraine should insist on a viable gas agreement with Russia / Anders Aslund, RealTime Economic Issues Watch, Peterson Institute for International Economics's blog, 16/06/2014http://blogs.piie.com/realtime/?p=4351Russia’s state-dominated natural gas company Gazprom is again threatening to cut off its supply to Ukraine and thus to some of its European customers that receive gas transited through Ukraine. These dramas have been repeated often since Ukraine became independent in 1991. Ukraine’s newly elected President Petro Poroshenko needs to put down his foot and clean up this corrupt and dysfunctional relationship...