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 turn off gas deliveries to neighbouring ...
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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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
news.yahoo.com - 1/7/2009
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news.yahoo.com —
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 ...
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Russia stops all gas supply to Europe via Ukraine - ...
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A Lousy Start To 2009 . . . For Ukraine And For Much Of Europe As Well
A Chequer-Board of Nights and Days —
For those who still have doubts concerning Russia's desire to bully its neighbors, I refer you to this story , which reveals the degree to which Russia is willing to go to show just how much hegemonic power it can exercise over other former Soviet states--and by extension, over Europe itself: Russia was preparing to turn off gas deliveries to neighbouring Ukraine on Thursday, raising the spectre of disruptions to European Union supplies. European states are anxious to avoid a repeat of what happened in January 2006 when, during a similar row, Moscow cut off supplies to ...
A Lousy Start To 2009 . . . For Ukraine And For Much Of Europe As Well
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... For those who still have doubts concerning Russia’s desire to bully its neighbors, I refer you to this story, which reveals the degree to which Russia is willing to go to show just how much hegemonic power it can exercise over other former Soviet states–and by extension, over Europe itself: ...
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Welcome back ... While Hamas rockets threaten an Israeli nuclear power plant , and the Russians continue to play political games with their neighbors , and the Democratic led congress tries to push through in one week a $1-trillion dollar stimulus package that no one has had a chance to read in its entirety yet, a familiar song begins to play in my head. Welcome back, Your dreams were your ticket out. Welcome back, To that same old place that you laughed about. Well the names have all changed since you hung around, But those dreams have remained and they're ...
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