Ukrainian Prime Minister Mykola Azarov said...

Azarov met with Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin at a government residence near Moscow on Thursday amid pledges to "reset" Russia-Ukraine ties, badly damaged by the policies of West-leaning former president Viktor Yushchenko.

While Putin decried labeling Russia-Ukraine gas contracts as "unfair" or "unbeneficial," he said that he had "found a compromise" with Azarov in "switching over to market price formation - both in gas and transit prices."

Earlier on Thursday, Azarov met with Gazprom CEO Alexei Miller, who said that gas prices would depend on the volume of purchases.

"An important result of the meeting is that Russia has agreed to start talks on this subject," Azarov said during a news briefing on Friday. "It would be very naive to think that one meeting has resolved a whole host of issues after five years of such an absurd policy towards Russia."

"We are in favor of revising the contract [on gas sales], and the contract must meet market conditions,"

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