ft.com - 1/7/2009
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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 spats have a longer history than is generally ...
uk.reuters.com - 1/1/2009
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uk.reuters.com —
* 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 ...
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 - 1/3/2009
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KIEV, July 16 (Reuters) - U.S. energy company
Vanco said on Wednesday it had filed for international
arbitration with Ukraine, after the government cancelled a 30-year licence to explore and extract oil and gas in the Black Sea shelf. Prime Minister ...
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U.S. energy firm Vanco in arbitration with Ukraine
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... which has left millions in the cold, our friend Jérôme Guillet explains the behind the scenes battle of the oligarchs that's really to blame. ...
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... Jerome Guillet and John Evans write in the Financial Times how Russia and Ukraine got to this point and why neither side can win a prolonged gas war. ...
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