news.yahoo.com - 1/7/2009
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KIEV, Ukraine Russia shut off all gas supplies to Europe through Ukraine on Wednesday, forcing countries to scramble for alternative sources of energy during a winter cold snap. Prime Minister Vladimir Putin endorsed the move, even as factories shut down in eastern Europe, schools closed and ...
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 ...
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 ...
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
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Wizbang —
The dispute between Russia and The Ukraine over gas has escalated . Russia shut off all gas supplies to Europe through Ukraine on Wednesday -- leaving tens of thousands of people in more than a dozen countries without heat during a winter cold snap. The EU accused both nations of holding consumers hostage in their contract dispute. The effects of the gas cutoff reverberated across the continent, where some countries have substantial reserves and others do not. In the Balkans, people celebrated Orthodox Christmas in churches lit by candles and scrambled to find other sources of ...
Instahoglets Wednesday
Newshoggers.com —
... - As Russia and Ukraine blame each other for a mid-winter halt in gas supplies to Europe which has left millions in the cold, our friend Jérôme Guillet explains ...
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