uk.reuters.com - 1/6/2009
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* Gazprom says it has cut gas flows to Europe sharply * Gazprom says Ukraine blocked three gas pipelines * France says Russian gas supplies down 70 pct * Bulgaria: "We are in crisis situation" * Gas prices rise sharply in London (Updates with Czech minister, Gazprom comments) By Christian Lowe ...
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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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
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Russia gas disruption bites in Europe
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... fly to Moscow on Thursday. Bulgaria, Turkey, Macedonia, Greece and Croatia said flows of Russian gas via Ukraine had come to a halt, creating what Bulgaria called a "crisis situation" in the middle of winter. European Union member states Austria and Romania said deliveries were down 90 percent and 75 percent respectively, and German energy firms warned there could be gas shortages in Europe's biggest economy if the dispute dragged on and sub-zero temperatures persisted. Read more: http://uk.reuters.com/article/oilRpt/idUKL6560699200901...
Accuweather's Bastardi: Global Cooling Reason for Putin Shutting off Gas Pipeline
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... Accuweather.com's chief long-range and hurricane forecaster Joe Bastardi observed that Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin's recent cut of gas flows to Europe via Ukraine may have been done so ...
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