{
  "id": 16936965,
  "title": "China Secures Massive Discount on Russian Gas as Moscow’s Leverage Weakens",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/28/china-secures-massive-discount-on-russian-gas-as-moscows-leverage",
  "topic": "finance",
  "section": "Finance & Markets",
  "published": "2026-10-28T18:00:00.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "OilPrice",
    "slug": "oilprice",
    "url": "https://oilprice.com/Energy/Natural-Gas/China-Secures-Massive-Discount-on-Russian-Gas-as-Moscows-Leverage-Weakens.html"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "Russia is giving China a huge discount on natural gas purchases, underscoring the Kremlin’s fiscal dependency on Beijing. The Moscow Times (MT), citing Russian Duma documentation, shows that China will pay an average of approximately $248 per thousand cubic meters of pipeline gas in 2026, compared with $562 for Gazprom's other foreign customers outside the former Soviet Union. That means Beijing…",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}