ANOTHER BATTLEFIELD Some European consumers of Russian gas have similar demands to those of Ukraine, and sometimes these are eventually satisfied. At the end of August, Leonidas Dragatakis, the President of DEPA, a Greek gas buyer, said that negotiations to cut the gas amount to an "acceptable" level of 70% of the contracted 3bn cu m and the price of Russian gas under Greece's long-term contract with Gazprom were completed successfully in July 2011. Italy's Edison also negotiated price cuts with Gazprom at the end of July. Gazprom is in the middle of a big-time gas war with E.On Ruhrgas, one of its major European gas partners, that has already taken the case to the arbitration court. E.On Ruhrgas is seeking to adjust contract prices to rates that meet spot prices for gas in Europe.