Russia Ready To Offer Greeks Cash In Return For Assets

[Purveyor]

By Tom Parfitt, Moscow and Mehreen Khan

2:36PM BST 07 Apr 2015

Russia could offer debt-ridden Greece controversial loans and discounts on supplies of natural gas in exchange for the country's "assets", according to reports in Moscow.

Alexis Tsipras, Greece’s prime minister, is due to arrive in the city on Tuesday and will meet Vladimir Putin, Russia’s president, on Wednesday.

Athens overtures to Moscow have raised fears the Leftist government is pivoting east in search of alternatives sources of finance as it bids to avoid bankruptcy. Ahead of his visit, Mr Tsipras condemned economic sanctions on Moscow as “a road to nowhere”.

Greece's dalliance with the Kremlin has also attracted criticism for potentially undermining the EU's united front against Russia's military intervention in Ukraine.

The Syriza leader’s flirtation with Moscow is likely to harden sympathetic European voices to Greek pleas of relief

Martin Schulz, the president of the European Parliament, said on Saturday that it would be "unacceptable” if Mr Tsipras “jeopardised Europe's common policy on Russia” in return for Kremlin aid.

But Kommersant newspaper quoted an anonymous Russian government source on Tuesday saying that lines of credit were on the table.

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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/economics/11519651/Russia-ready-to-offer-Greeks-cash-in-return-for-assets.html

[raging moderate]

1. Or do the Russians maybe owe the Greeks already?

I heard the Greeks have mentioned the WWII damage done by the German Nazis but never paid for. Wasn't some damage done in Greece by Communists right after WWII?

[Warren Stupidity]

2. yes the greek communists got themselves killed wholesale.

you are seriously comparing the civil war after WWII to the nazi occupation?