Russia and Ukraine will discuss a possible...

Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych, who came to power in February after narrowly winning a presidential runoff against then premier Yulia Tymoshenko, has been seeking to revise a long-term gas deal signed by Tymoshenko and Putin in early 2009.

"We agreed that there are no topics closed to discussion," Putin told journalists after talks with his Ukrainian counterpart Mykola Azarov in the Moscow Region.

Putin disagreed with a journalist who called the gas contracts "unfair."

"We do not think the contracts" parameters are unjust or unbeneficial," he said. "As a result of long, very hard talks, we found a compromise. The compromise is that we are switching over to market price formation - both in gas and transit prices."

"If the question of reviewing prices is raised, then the question "what for?" arises. We asked our colleagues what they are ready to offer in response," the Russian premier said.

Neither Putin, nor his counterpart Azarov specified

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