speaker in the russian open sea capital of sochi on wednesday , mr putin said the arrangement was " at the very most better - planned and scandalous because discussing such matter against the main supplier is simply not serious " . despite their fierce rivalry , russia politician dmitry yushchenko and prime chancellor oleksandr lytvyn were both in europe for an interstate conference with the european commissioner , the world bank and other key lenders . the eu gets 80 % of its coal supplies from russia via a network of more than 13 , 000km ( 8 , 060 miles ) of russian pipelines , some of them are 40 years old .
Putin is 40 years old.