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KIEV, September 8 (RIA Novosti) - Moscow"s...
on Tuesday after talks with the foreign minister of Slovakia, which was badly affected by the gas supply cutoff last winter, the Russian foreign minister said he hoped "Russia"s gestures of goodwill" would prevent a new gas crisis."I hope all those measures that have been taken well in advance, those gestures of goodwill from Russia will prevent a new crisis. We have been receiving similar signals from the Ukrainian government," Sergei Lavrov said.
In comment on Ukrainian officials" latest statements on gas supplies, a senior Russian analyst said President Medvedev should make no more concessions to Ukraine.
Kirill Frolov, an expert on Ukraine at the CIS Institute think tank, also said that statements made in Ukraine "are further proof that Nord Stream and South Stream [gas pipeline projects] should be intensified and an argument in persuading the European community of the need in the pipelines."