The Ukrainian authorities have taken all the steps that could reasonably have been expected of them to ensure access to the judicial system for residents of territories outside Ukraine's control.
Head of the Antimonopoly Committee of Ukraine Yuriy Terentyev has announced that the number of complaints about public procurements in Ukraine in 2017 increased by 85% against 2016, to 5,684 claims.
In the first half of 2017, Russian Gazprom delivered 1,389 billion cubic meters of gas to the self-proclaimed "DPR" ("Donetsk People’s Republic") and "LPR" ("Luhansk People’s Republic"). The price of Russian gas as of the first quarter of 2017 was $306.6 per 1,000 cubic meters, according to the data from Gazprom’s report for the second quarter, UAWire wrote.
Chief Commercial Officer of national oil and gas holding Naftogaz of Ukraine Yuriy Vitrenko says Naftogaz will not give up its claims and will not withdraw lawsuits against Russia's Gazprom lodged with the Arbitration Institute of the Stockholm Chamber of Commerce.