It is not for the first time that Ukraine creates a “gas scandal” for Europe on New Year’s Eve. It’s simple at the first glance – Russia sells gas to Ukraine on the contract base. Ukraine has to pay Russia it has promised to do.

Russia’s economic and political development, as well as its foreign relations, are a topic for incessant discussions in the mass media worldwide.

In 2008 SOLVAY, the largest Belgian industrial company and one of Europe’s chemical and pharmaceutical majors is going to turn 145 years.