Europe's economy.

2. The requirement of balancing domestic prices for gas and other energy resources to the level of European market. Despite the official optimism about Russia's part, this sore point in relations with the EU is not closed and will not be closed even with the end of the WTO negotiations. Essentially, it is "sewn" into the very model of relations psevdointegratsionnuyu Russia - the EU, expressed in the concept of "common spaces". One of the parameters of a common energy space (as part of a "common European economic space") is an objective system of pricing. Up until the very concept of "shared spaces" will not be reviewed, inclined to the negotiating pressure European bureaucrats will methodically go back to the question of the gradual harmonization of energy pricing as part of "greater Europe". EU wants to avoid the "energy dumping", because that Russia's industrial consumers have access to the gas, whose price is five times lower than the export level. Thus, Russia's state subsidizes its industry, to the detriment of international competition. " Significant share of Russia's exports to the EU belongs to the energy-intensive goods, such as metals and chemical products. And the EU wants them were more expensive. In print leaking unofficial information that the purpose of negotiations with the EU is a gas price of 45-60 dollars. per thousand cubic meters for Russia's industry. As a result, Russia's energy producers would receive more revenue for investment in its new export projects, and competition for the European steel and chemical industries would fall. Recall that at the moment (estimated GHG "IARC"), Russia's steel industry is subsidized at $ 800 million due to cheap electricity, a further $ 1 billion - at the expense of gas and $ 150 million - at the expense of existing duties on exports of scrap metal. Total subsidy metallurgists is today 15-17% of revenue received by companies. Now inside Russia, consumers buy from Gazprom energy on the Government-established price - about $ 38 per thousand cubic meters. Experts estimate that Gazprom, the rise in prices, with free pricing would be around 30% - to almost 50 dollars per thousand cubic meters, which roughly coincides with the interim requirements of the EU. Vice-President of OAO Gazprom and Director general of Gazexport, Alexander Medvedev, has expressly recognized that the protocol on accession to the WTO, signed by Russia and the European Union, provides a precise timetable for the tariff increase for domestic gas consumers. In an interview with French newspaper La Tribune, he said that "our goal is to achieve by 2010 the price of gas at 60 dollars per one thousand cubic meters. Meters of gas."