You will get a discount

As a result of night talks in Moscow between Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin and his Ukrainian counterpart Yulia Tymoshenko, some kind of consensus was born around the price of gas. Russia will provide Ukraine with a 20 percent discount on the European price for gas supplies, and Ukraine in return will maintain the preferential rate for the transit of Russian gas at the 2008 level. But from January 1, 2010, prices for both Russian gas and transit through Ukraine will definitely be European, as Putin said. It seems that Gazprom and Naftogaz are already preparing documents.

Thus, if the summit did not bring any results, and German Prime Minister Angela Merkel made it clear to Putin that Russia is primarily interested in gas supplies, and representatives of the European Union directly expressed dissatisfaction with the results of the summit, then the prime ministers of the countries participating in the gas conflict and the heads of their gas corporations still managed to achieve something.

Gas has not yet flowed through Ukraine, but Slovakia, which has suffered the most from the infighting between Russia and Ukraine, has already begun to receive Russian gas through the Yamal-Europe gas pipeline passing through Belarus and Poland.