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Russia is threatening to cut off European countries’ gas
Steve LeVine
qz.com
Moscow today threatened natural gas deliveries to any European country that contrives a bypass to supply Ukraine with Russian fuel. The warning is a salvo against what it called a “half-fraudulent scheme” to confound Moscow’s 11-day-old cutoff of gas to Ukraine.
The outburst came the same day that Ukraine finally signed an “Association Agreement” that moves it officially closer to the European Union, an act that Moscow regards as a red line. Russian president Vladimir Putin’s popularity has soared on the back of his government’s aggressive actions to annex and destabilize the eastern parts of Ukraine, and to punish the rest of the country.
At the heart of Moscow’s leverage in the region is Ukraine’s and Europe’s reliance on Russian natural gas supplies, as the chart below shows. At the same time, Russia ships half of that gas through Ukraine, which consequently exerts its own pressure on Russia.
to read more: qz.com
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