Russia to pay a high price:
``Russia will sooner or later have to pay a high price for this,'' Bildt said in a telephone interview from the Georgian capital Tbilisi.
Russia may raise oil export duty on its benchmark Urals blend by $40 from December 1 to $271-273 per metric ton from the current $231.2 per ton, a Finance Ministry official said on Wednesday.Alexander Sakovich, head of the ministry's consolidated analysis department, said the average price of Russian oil was $76.08 per barrel from October 15 to November 10.