article_snippet.sent: with Moscow as Gazprom accused the Russian gas giant of overcharging .
article_snippet.sent: states - a particular concern in recent efforts to aid Ukraine - and pressuring governments to back Gazprom pipeline interests.
article_snippet.sent: Europe despite EU's frequent political disputes with Moscow.
article_snippet.sent: Relations with Russia, and Gazprom in particular,
article_snippet.sent: have since . been poisoned more by the East-West confrontation over Ukraine. '
article_snippet.sent: countries without fearing that ... gas would flow in from where .
article_snippet.sent: Crimea from Ukraine, European Commission
article_snippet.sent: the Kremlin and Brussels 'on the intergovernmental level'.
article_snippet.sent: Asked to comment on this case, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said in an interview with three radio stations: 'All contracts in effect now that Gazprom signed with Gazprom partners, were signed with full respect of the legal regime that existed in EU at the time. '
article_snippet.sent: EU EU has brokered deals to keep gas flowing to Ukraine .
article_snippet.sent: despite the conflict between Kiev and Moscow, but efforts to .
article_snippet.sent: with Gazprom that prohibit the re-export of Russian gas.
article_snippet.sent: Gazprom had also pressured Poland and Bulgaria into . accepting unfavourable terms over gas pipeline control and .
article_snippet.sent: over Ukraine in which gas supplies have played a major role.