Putin plunders Ukraine and EU
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Posted: January 13, 2009, 10:06 AM by Diane Francis

Bully-boy Russia and its dictator, Vlad Putin, are still up to their old tricks as this winter's "cold" war with Ukraine has dragged on without justification. Moscow inflates gas prices, and diverts billions of dollars, from Ukrainian natural gas payments to an intermediary of unknown ownership without justification.
Kiev pay more for gas than it should and when it balks is cut off, levied, bad-mouthed and forced to trim the flow to European Union customers.
Here is a letter written to the National Post by Ihor Ostash, Ambassador of Ukraine to Canada about Russia's misbehavior and is followed by a press release from Gazprom, Russia's largest company run by the Kremlin.