timesonline.co.uk - 1/8/2009
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Rory Watson in Brussels and David Charter in Prague
europe.theoildrum.com - 1/3/2009
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europe.theoildrum.com —
The 2004 orange revolution put Ukraine on the
map, as a new, spunky member of the "democratic...
world" against the axis of evil and other assorted dictatorships, a group that Russia was beginning to join in the White House view. Never mind that ...
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Europe | Ukraine-Russia gas spat: some background and ...
independent.co.uk - 1/7/2009
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The Big Chill
Belmont Club —
European efforts to solve the Russian-Ukranian dispute over gas prices have stalled. According to the Times Online , hundreds of schools, hospitals and factories have closed, especially in the Balkans for lack of heating. “A senior US diplomat warned that Nato might have to intervene to help alliance members such as Bulgaria and Romania if the crisis drags on.” Frantic efforts to restore gas supplies to millions of European comsumers failed today after Russia flatly refused to turn the pipeline back on. A European Union plan to send monitors to both countries, agreed in ...
News....
Theo Spark —
... Nato warning for Russia over 'political' gas crisis. Putin is nothing more than an old Soviet Bully Boy. We must stand up to him. ...
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