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Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych postponed a visit to Russia on Tuesday for talks with President Vladimir Putin that had been expected to discuss a gas pricing dispute.

Kremlin foreign policy aide Yury Ushakov told reporters
Yanukovych would not meet Putin as planned later on Tuesday
because more time was needed to prepare documents they had
planned to sign.

The leaders had been due to hold talks on the price of
Ukraine’s Russian gas imports, a bone of contention between the
two countries which has in the past led to reductions in the
supply of Russian gas to Europe via Ukraine’s pipeline network.