Gas in Europe - Putin, Full Interview 08.01.2009 [6]

[StraussBR]

mr putin is very transparent on business

i don't understand why europeans question russia's reliability to supply gas, not even in the cold war the soviet union stoped or reduced the gas flow to europe

[Jacobitess]

Heavens above, was that woman actually suggesting that Russia sell to her own sons and daughters the same price as she would for foreigners?! This is getting very hard to watch, as those asking questions, for the most part, aren't being very reasonable. Maybe something is being lost in translation, though, and I'm not getting the whole picture.

[mkhmkl]

She really sounded somewhat muddled. Putin had to ask her 3 times until it became clear for him that she was speaking about increase of internal russian prices.

Low internal prices are very irritating for Europe, they strictly watch over their commercial interests and try to avoid any possibility of competition.

Oddity of some questions and people just means they had premediated questions. Not important what Putin was going to say - they already have some editorial instructions.

[Arkhimec]

No subtitles?

[mkhmkl]

In process.

[Arkhimec]

thanks

[britsinger2]

why do they make russia seem bad? is it hard to make an international commision