Belarus cancelled the taxes imposed for Russian oil transit
Thursday, January 11, 2007
The Russian president Vladimir Putin and his Belarus counterpart Aleksandr Lukasenko reached an agreement in the crisis regarding the Russian oil transit to Europe. The officials in Minsk stated on Wednesday, that Belarus renounced the transit taxes applied for the transport of Russian oil, facilitating the resumption of oil supply to Western Europe through the Druzhba pipeline.Russian required Belarus to give back 80,000 tons of oil which they considered stolen during the crisis regarding ...