telegraph.co.uk - 1/6/2009
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Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin orders staterun gas company to cut supplies 20 per cent "starting today".
faustasblog.com - 1/8/2009
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faustasblog.com —
Via RWN, The day the sea froze: Temperature
plunges to MINUS 12C and forecasters say it won’t
warm up until Sunday Temperatures plunged so low today that the sea actually began to freeze as Arctic conditions continued to grip the UK. In the ...
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Putin: Mr Freeze
uk.reuters.com - 1/1/2009
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* Ukraine's gas to be cut at 0700
GMT on Thursday * Ukraine says it will maintain
European supplies * Europe has stocks to ride out crisis - analysts By Vladimir Soldatkin and Guy Faulconbridge MOSCOW/KIEV, Jan 1 (Reuters) - Russia was preparing to ...
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WRAPUP 1-Russia prepares to halt gas supplies to ...
ft.com - 1/7/2009
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ft.com —
A monolithic, Putin-led Kremlin using the “energy weapon”
to browbeat neighbouring Ukraine and beyond and threaten the
rest of Europe with natural gas shortages: the image has become commonplace during the “gas spats” of the past few years. Yet those ...
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FT.com / Comment / Opinion - The battle of the oligarchs ...
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Wizbang —
Perhaps he just longs for a return to the good old days when Europe trembled in fear of the Soviet Union. Russia's version of Dick Cheney - the power behind President Medvedev - Vladimir Putin has ordered that Europe's supply of natural gas be drastically cut. Europe has been plunged into an energy crisis after Vladimir Putin ordered Russia's state-run gas company to cut supplies by 20 per cent. As temperatures dropped below zero across much of Europe, the Russian prime minister instructed the head of Gazprom: "Cut it - starting today." The cut was ordered to punish ...
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... Owl Wars in the Pacific Northwest. Some want to kill the Barred Owls. However, the two species are essentially different races of the same big bird. I thought they decided to reduce their fossil fuel consumption anyway. So what's the problem? Bush designates more vast marine sanctuaries. Thanks, W. Politics, Chicago-style Half of economists believe the New Deal worsened the Depression From Nyquist on Strategic Reality 101: I believe there is a societal motive behind our ...
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agonist.org 1/8/2009 — The resource bubble bursting now has Russia and Ukraine in an escalating spiral of shoves.
Fall out now includes all Russian gas supplies through Ukraine to Europe. Anyone who doubts that the spectre of resource inflation waits for us when recovery ...
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