After his money: Russian President Dmitry Medvedev
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Medvedev orders Ukraine debt collection
Russian president Dmitry Medvedev has ordered gas export monopoly Gazprom to ask Ukraine to pay back its gas debt to Russia, which Gazprom estimates at $2.4 billion, local agencies reported today.
"We need to fully clarify ourselves with Ukraine's debt and recover it on a good-will or compulsory basis," Interfax quoted Medvedev as saying to Gazprom's chief executive Alexei Miller at a meeting in the Kremlin, wrote Reuters.
“Because it is stated in the current legislation and within the frames of our bilateral relationships."