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From: jonesme@rferl.org
Sent: Thu 1/12/2006
Subject: BRIEFING- The Russia-Ukraine Gas Conflict: Dilemmas for European and Energy Security

Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty
1201 Connecticut Ave NW, Washington, DC 20036
tel: 202-457-6900 * fax: 202-457-6992
http://www.rferl.org

Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty invites you to a briefing by Taras Kuzio
Visiting Professor, Institute for European, Russian and Eurasian Studies
George Washington University
Roman Kupchinsky
Coordinator of Corruption Studies, RFE/RL
Editor, "RFE/RL Organized Crime and Terrorism Watch"

The Russia-Ukraine Gas Conflict: Dilemmas for European and Energy Security
Thursday, January 19, 2005
9:00AM-10:30AM
in Conference Room A (4th Floor) at
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty
1201 Connecticut Ave NW
[entrance on Rhode Island Ave NW, next to St. Matthew's Cathedral]

On 1 January, Russia's Gazprom gas monopoly stopped gas deliveries to Ukraine by lowering pressure in the main pipeline to Europe. The next day, Western and Central Europe suffered cuts in the natural gas supplies they receive from Russia. On January 4, a complex five-year deal was announced after talks in Moscow between the heads of Gazprom and Ukraine's state energy company Naftohaz, under which Ukraine will buy a mix of Russian and Central Asian gas from a Russian-Ukrainian joint venture. The deal has been widely criticized in Ukraine, where parliamentarians voted on January 11 to sack Prime Minister Yuriy Yekhanurov and his government just weeks before a critical parliamentary election. Our speakers will offer their insights into the crisis; the deal that was made to end it; and its potential impact on political and foreign policy interests in Ukraine, Russia and their neighbors.

Taras Kuzio, a leading expert on contemporary Ukraine, is the author of "State and Nation Building in Ukraine: Perestroika to Independence" and co-editor of "Ukrainian Foreign and Security Policy: Dilemmas of state-Led Nation Building". Roman Kupchinsky was the president of Prolog Research and Publishing Corporation in New York prior to joining RFE/RL, where he was director of the Ukrainian Service for ten years before taking on his current role as organized crime and terrorism analyst for RFE/RL Online in 2001.

Please RSVP by January 18 by email to <dc-response@rferl.org>, by telephone to Melody Jones at (202) 457-6949, or by fax to (202) 457-6992.