[lbo-talk] Ambassador to Tajikistan: do it yourself, pussies!

Chris Doss lookoverhere1 at yahoo.com
Wed Dec 14 08:55:37 PST 2005


Yeah, Tajikistan, 90% of whose citizens want back in the USSR (according to a Newsweek Russia article a couple of years ago) is going to do great relying on mighty Uzbekistan.

Gazprom is talking about raising Ukraine's gas fees to $220 per thousand cubic meters. Yowzers!

FWIW here are current proces for Russian gas, taken from today's isue of Argumenty i Fakti (Russian article here: http://www.aif.ru/online/aif/1311/06_01 ). This should show the extent wo which Russia is subsidizing the economies of certain other countries.

Country Cost per 1000 cubic meters ------------------------------------------ Germany $160 Poland $120 Lithuania $85 Latvia $94 Estonia $90 Belarus $46.70 Moldova $80 Ukraine $50 Georgia $60 Ajerbaijan $60 Armenia $54

--- Willy Greenfields <filthydirtyunwashed at yahoo.com> wrote:


> I was looking for more on the Russia-Ukraine gas
> spat
> and came across this bizarre brief. I guess the
> Tajiks
> should rely instead on their failed and failing
> neighbors to provide security, infrastructure,
> energy
> and the capital goods for which they're so famed.
> Presumably the Tajiks don't mistake anti-Russian
> animus for sincere calls to import-substitution (the
> Ambassador wouldn't counsel Honduras, say, to adopt
> a
> similar stance when dealing w/ its own regional
> hegemon, would he?):
>
> <http://en.rian.ru/analysis/20051212/42452163.html>
>
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