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The CIS summit, opening tomorrow in Minsk, risks turning into a demonstration of dissatisfaction with Gazprom's policies. Alexander Lukashenko, when it was announced to him that from 2007 instead of $46 he would have to pay $200 per cubic meter, forgot about his tender affections. And now he believes that Georgia, Moldova, Ukraine and Belarus should consolidate and demand that Russia fulfill the 1994 free trade agreement. According to him, “free trade” means the right to buy gas at domestic Russian prices.