RUSSIA’S GAS POWER PLAYS COULD HAVE FATAL FLAW
May 1st, 2009
BY KEITH NUTHALL and EMMA JACKSON
IF the competition to build gas pipeline networks from Russia, the Caucasus and central Asia to central and western Europe were a horserace, commentators would say it was still too close to call.
For although politicians and diplomats in Brussels, Moscow and other European capitals would never admit it publicly, these multi-million investment projects are contests of power and influence. Their sponsors are jockeying for influence over where this gas is supplied and at what cost. Russia wants to control the supply and the ...
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