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Oles M. Smolansky

Oles M. Smolansky is a professor of International Relations at Lehigh University.

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“Russia’s thuggery backfires”

by Oles M. Smolansky, Rajan Menon

2 February 2006

Russia and Ukraine put an end to their controversies regarding natural gas pricing. Ukraine will pay more, but less than what Russia had demanded at the beginning. That is the good news. The bad news is that the West did not take sides in the outcome. Gazprom had requested to increase gas (…)