Sentence examples for shady gas from inspiring English sources
National ideals have been discredited by cynicism and the corruption of ruling politicians tainted by shady gas deals with Russia.
Last week, prosecutors opened a second criminal case against the former prime minister, accusing her of embezzling £250m in shady gas deals in 1997.
It was an anti-criminal and anti-corruption revolution," he says.Yet many Ukrainians were dismayed when they heard that Mr Poroshenko had been endorsed by Dmitry Firtash, a main beneficiary of shady gas deals between Russia and Ukraine who has just been arrested in Austria at America's request, and his business partner, Sergei Levochkin, a former chief of staff to Mr Yanukovych.
She now stands accused of spending money received from the sale of greenhouse-gas quotas on pensions rather than on reducing pollution, and of buying ill-equipped ambulances.In a country where billions of dollars are siphoned off in shady gas deals, these charges seem not only political but flimsy.
In 2006, when Russia cut off the gas, he accepted a shady gas-trading scheme designed by his predecessors.On the edgeThe roots of Ukraine's ills stretch far beyond Mr Yushchenko's weakness or Ms Tymoshenko's populism.
In the last few years the headline economic stories in India have been about pervasive corruption: politicized allocation of high-value public resources (land, mineral rights, oil and gas, telecommunications), shady public-private partnerships and the galloping cost of elections financed by the illicit incomes of politicians.
Mr Chuichenko served in the KGB; he was also head of Gazprom's legal department and a director of RosUkrEnergo, a shady intermediary that sells gas to Ukraine.Yet none of these changes, including even the shake-up of the siloviki, alters either the direction of Russia or the political system created by Mr Putin over the past eight years.
But when she was fired, the orange coalition fell apart.Two years later, she came back as prime minister and managed to scrap RosUkrEnergo, the biggest and shadiest of the country's gas intermediaries.
Mr Yanukovich wants to renegotiate today's gas agreement, which excludes shady intermediaries.The gas princessEven so, many businessmen worry more about the populist Ms Tymoshenko.
And both countries should do a lot more to eliminate the shady intermediaries that have made the business of gas supply so opaque and rife with corruption.As so often, the two sides' positions have become dangerously entrenched.
Mr. Browder discovered that billions of dollars in gas had been sold at deeply discounted prices to shady intermediaries.
