date:Apr 07, 2014
charges Ukraine for gas on Thursday for the second time this week, almost doubling it in three days and piling pressure on its neighbor as it teeters on the brink of bankruptcy.
Moscow has frequently used energy as a political weapon in dealing with its neighbors, and European customers are now concerned Russia might again cut off deliveries.
ECONOMIC PRESSURE
Moscow is applying economic pressure in other areas, while Ukraine has responded.
Russian riot police last month took control of a fa