Pipeline dispute to dominate first visit by a Russian PM for five years

Russian Prime Minister Michail Kasyanov arrived in Warsaw yesterday at the start of his first official visit to Poland. In a statement made shortly after his plane touched down at Okecie Airport, Kasyanov said the main focus of his visit would be purely economic matters. "I want to find out why Ukraine, Belarus and Germany have good relations with us, whereas Poland, also our neighbor, does not," the Russian prime minister said. However, according to analysts, the first visit by a Russian prime minister to Poland in five years is likely to be dominated by the dispute over the Yamal-Berlin gas pipeline. (Rzeczpospolita, p. A1) J.K.