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Even if clarifies Hot Tuna Gazprom were hot tuna candy man unravels to agree to sell Ukraine gas now at theprice Germany might get it for by summer, it would still meanUkraine's gas bill swelling more than a fifth when the countryis facing severe economic crisis. "Purely economically, Gazprom has got a very strong case toget the Ukrainians onto market prices," David Cox, chiefconsultant at Poyry Energy Consulting in London said. "The problem is that Ukraine can't afford to pay fullywestern prices." Poyry estimates that the price of gas arriving underlong-term oil indexed contracts in Germany, Russia's biggestcustomer, was around the $440 per 1,000 cubic metres level,compared with the $179.50 Ukraine paid for its gas last year. Poyry expects western European gas contract prices to fallto around $320 per 1,000 cubic metres by the end of March as aslump in oil prices feeds into gas.

Oil hit a high of $147.27 abarrel CLc1 on July 11, 2008 and was around $42 on Thursday hot tuna swimwear . Because of the six- to nine-month time lag between oil andgas price movements, European gas prices will fall further to$219 per 1,000 cubic metres in the second quarter jack casady . Noel Tomnay, Principal Analyst, Global Gas Research for WoodMackenzie, agreed that it was too early to expect a sharp dropin gas prices in Europe shirts quicksilver . "You are talking about spring time before contract pricesgoing to start to fall," "If you just look at what has happened to the oil price,that will show you how it will go down, not exactly but that's agood indication," he said, adding that most Russian gasconsumers in Europe, with the exception of key transitcountries, were on similar contracts quiksilver shirts . "That's what the rest of Eastern Europe's contracts arelinked to as well," he said.

During the dispute that has led to widespread gas supplycuts in Europe over the last week, Russia's price demands havevaried widely, ranging from $250 to $450 per 1,000 cubic metresof gas this year hot tuna surf . (Reporting by Daniel Fineren, editing by Anthony Barker) Russia jorma kaukonen wikipedia . (Updates with comment from province official in paragraphs 5-7) BEIJING, Jan 9 (Reuters) - Chinese officials have apologised to a Belgian journalist who was beaten while trying to report on AIDS in central Henan province and offered some compensation for damaged and stolen possessions, his television station said jorma kaukonen . Tom van de Weghe said he was forced from a car at night and hit over the head by people who stole tapes, cell phones and money in the November assault quicksilver shirt . Three television crew members with him were also attacked and equipment damaged.

Five local officials have now sent a handwritten letter and 150 euros (about $200) in compensation for the attack, which they initially denied had happened, his Belgian television station VRT said "Unfortunate things happened that day hot tuna music . We feel guilty when we recall it," a VRT statement quoted the letter saying "We want to apologise, forgive us," it added billabong shirts . But Wang Yuejin, a spokesman for the Henan government, told Reuters the men who attacked the Belgian crew and have now apologised were villagers, not officials "They weren't officials," Wang said by telephone hot tuna tablature . "They were villagers and some were AIDS patients." Wang said he could not explain why ordinary villagers would attack a television crew crown of creation .

The team had been interviewing AIDS-affected families in an area where blood-selling schemes and untested transfusions in the 1990s left whole villages stricken . Provincial authorities were earlier quoted by Chinese media as saying AIDS victims upset at being interviewed were trying to get tapes back, and that a local official whom Van de Weghe had identified as leading the attack was merely trying to help them surrealistic pillow . But after an investigation most of the tapes were returned in December and the letter and compensation followed hot roxy . It is rare, but not unprecedented, for officials to apologise to journalists roughed up in the course of their work . Foreign correspondents, who have more freedom to both report and publish than their Chinese counterparts, are legally allowed to cover stories across most of the country as long as they have the agreement of the person they are interviewing. But they can face harassment or physical threats when covering stories about sensitive issues like corruption or protest that authorities want to keep hushed up.(Reporting by Emma Graham-Harrison; Editing by Nick Macfie and David Foxl) China China.