viter o., pavlenko r., honchar m. ukraine. post-revolution energy policy and relation with russia. 2006

[...]... shares in oil and oil refining companies, and to find several sources of oil for Ukraine (for instance Russia, Kazakhstan, Caucasus and Lybia) After the session, the president promised, ‘Nobody will ever regulate prices with administrative methods in Ukraine. The petrol crisis was over after the meeting of the president with government and representatives of the Council of National Security and Defense... Independent States) members As a result of weakening cooperation from these states and the transition of some of them (in particular Georgia and Ukraine) to democratic regimes, Russia had decided to toughen its energy relationships with them From 2006 the price of gas would be increased for CIS and Baltic countries and barter payments would be substituted by market mechanisms According to the Russian... transportation of energy sources, and abandoning the practice of their one-sided consideration; increasing extraction of Ukraine’s energy sources; maximizing Ukraine’s transit potential, investments in modernization and development of extraction, refining and transportation infrastructure As previously mentioned, representatives of the former and new authorities share general approaches to solving the energy. .. politicians’ and the public’s attention away from the energy issues and instead to the interpersonal conflicts between Prime Minister Tymoshenko and Oleksiy Ivchenko The absence of a unified position on many issues of energy policy has also had the negative effect of politicians making conflicting statements about the same issue This results in a lack of public awareness regarding the energy sphere... general direction of policy in the energy sphere has continued The Government sought reforms in all spheres, as identified by experts, in order to create an independent oil products market However, very soon the Cabinet of Ministers will need to make up a ‘list of priorities’ as it lacks funds and time GMB Publishing Ukraine 3 Gas: manipulation and conflict Olena Viter U kraine’s energy policy was subject... kraine’s energy policy was subject to manipulation and conflict Inadequate information from previous years, new relationships between Naftohaz Ukrainy and Gazprom, and manipulation of mass media prevented companies from developing transparent relationship policies Mutual confrontation ‘froze’ a number of prospective projects between Ukraine and Russia and delayed plans to increase the transit of Russian... Ukraine and its agrarian complex’vii, and that they had deliberately raised oil prices On 31 March 2005, Minister of Agrarian Policy, Oleksandr Baranivskiy, made a statement that a secret meeting of managers of ORPs had occurred, where they had agreed to raise prices for fuel The minister noted that producers had already started to withhold petrol and had even refused to draft the necessary agreements with. .. agreements with Gazprom for 2006 Subsequently, Russia threatened to shut off the gas supply These unacceptable conditions presented Ukraine with two options They could ‘steal’ gas from other European countries in order to avoid an ‘Alchevsk’ situation throughout Ukraine, but this would mean destroying all positive relationships with Europe during 2005 The second option was to remain honest and do without... Turkmenistan and presented Niyazov with the facts and figures of the payments According to Ivchenko, Niyazov had reprimanded his aides for misinforming him.xiii Diversification of supply Demonstrating the development of a working partnership with Russia, the newly formed Ukrainian government made steps to decrease its dependence on Russia Already in its first months, gas importation was reduced and home... Russia and Turkey, cooperation with Turkey by Naftohaz Ukrainy would be rather dangerous for Russian interests As part of the diversification programme, Naftohaz Ukrainy launched negotiations regarding participation in oil/gas projects in Iran, Afghanistan, and Pakistan They placed special emphasis on cooperation with Iran At the end of February 2006 the newly appointed Minister of Fuel and Energy, . authors, editors, contributors or sponsors can accept responsibility for any errors or omissions, however caused. No responsibility for loss or damage occasioned to any person acting, or refraining from. may copy or download portions of the material herein for personal use, and may include portions of this material in internal reports and/ or reports to customers, and on an occasional and infrequent. works for resale or for redistribution to servers or lists, or reuse any copyrighted component of this work in other works, without the prior written permission of GMB Publishing Ltd. GMB Publishing