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Russia, Austria: Nabucco and Gazprom

Tuesday, June 5th, 2007 @ 20:22 UTC

by Veronica Khokhlova

Countries:: Russia, Austria
Topics:: Business, Energy, International Relations, Politics

Transatlantic Politics writes about the news of Gazprom's involvement in the Nabucco gas pipeline project - which was originally supposed to be the EU's “attempt to build an alternative to the Gazprom-controlled, already-built natural gas pipeline-network”: “Can't own the pipeline? No big deal, we'll own the faucet.”

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