Russia, Ukraine to try to solve gas enmity at Yalta meeting

Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin will meet Thursday his Ukrainian counterpart Yulia Tymoshenko to try to prevent new gas crisis. The two leaders will meet in the Livadiya Castle in Crimean resort Yalta, where in 1945 Joseph Stalin, Franklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill have redrawn the after war map.

Relations between Russia and Ukraine are problematic due to the dispute over gas price between the two countries, which stopped Russian gas deliveries to big part of Europe for two weeks last January.

As a sign for high pledge of the negotiations Putin will be accompanied by three of his most powerful attendants-first deputy Prime Minister Igor Shuvalov, deputy Prime Minister Igor Secin and energy minister Sergey Shmatko.