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Cutting out the Ukrainian middleman

21.02.2008 / 00:00 CET
To connoisseurs of financial euphemism, the RosUkrEnergo website is without peer. A company that appears to own no reserves or pipelines made a stonking $785 million (€537m) in the gas business in 2006 (the last year recorded) and more than doubled its assets, from less than $2 billion to more than $4bn.

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