Sometimes, you shouldn’t read too much into what a politician says on television with voters watching closely.
A televised question-answer session with citizens held on Friday by Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovich is a case in point.
Tuning in, you may have concluded that cash-strapped Kiev is leaning more to the east nowadays, betting on a Russian bailout in the form of lower prices for natural gas imports, with a trade-off that would involve Ukraine granting Russia’s Gazprom management control over its strategic EU-bound gas pipeline.
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