Sentence examples for gas payment from inspiring English sources

Russian gas monopoly Gazprom threatened to suspend supply to Ukraine, saying Kiev missed a February gas payment and owes nearly $2bn.

Printed ballots for a planned 16 March vote in Crimea on whether to join Russia appear not to have a space for voting 'No.' Russian gas monopoly Gazprom threatened to suspend supply to Ukraine, saying Kiev missed a February gas payment and owes nearly $2bn.

Ukraine said it owed Russia $2bn in gas payments.

Both Ukraine and Russia said Tuesday that Kiev owes Moscow $2bn in gas payments.

Russia has said Kiev owes more than $2bn in gas payments.

The tension between Russia and Ukraine, which grew during a winter standoff over natural gas payments, has now shifted to the cultural arena.

So since 2005 the 19 plants receiving the waste gas payments have profited handsomely from an unlikely business: churning out more harmful coolant gas so they can be paid to destroy its waste byproduct.

Unexpected expenses for lead removal in schools, increased costs for natural gas, payments to charter schools and teacher raises from a new contract forced the extra spending, officials said on Monday.

Gazprom has also helped put pressure on Russian neighbors like Georgia and Ukraine, which are chronically behind in gas payments, when it was diplomatically useful to the Kremlin for it to do so.

Prepared by the Interior Department's inspector general, Earl E. Devaney, the report said that investigators found a "profound failure" in the agency's technology for monitoring oil and gas payments.

Putin says Russia is ready to provide financial aid to Ukraine, but Western requests and late gas payments are preventing it from doing so: We are ready to look at providing additional tranches..