Russia opening gas pipeline to Western Europe
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MOSCOW — With its gas business in decline, Russia on Tuesday begin filling a new pipeline that goes directly under the Baltic Sea to Germany, bypassing Ukraine, Belarus and Poland.
Russia has long wanted to build a way around the transit countries that lie between it and Western Europe, because of the money they siphon off and because Moscow feels they take unfair advantage of their position. The new Nord Stream pipeline gives Russia a stronger hand against, for example, Ukraine — with which it is currently in one of its periodic pricing disputes. But Russia nonetheless faces bleaker prospects for business in Western Europe.
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