Putin turns off the gas

Azerbaijan News.Net
Thursday 8th January, 2009

Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has told state energy company Gazprom to stop all gas supplies to Ukraine.

Russian news agencies say Mr Putin ordered the CEO of Gazprom to turn off the pipeline, which he did in the presence of international observers.

Before the gas was turned off, European deliveries had slowed considerably, causing the EU to send monitors to check the flow of gas.

Putin ordered the gas to be turned off to prove Ukraine had already blocked all four export pipelines, not Russia.

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Anonymous
01-08-09, 11:46 AM

Putin turns off the gas

(R) 2012 DAN QUAYLE PRESIDENTIAL COALITION - [LATEST DEVELOPMENT : Russia “to restore natural gas to Europe”] We are just disappointed a little bit to Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko’s lameduck leadership to handle Ukraine Energy Independence too slowly. Ukraine ought to look for the other alternative energy resources instead to let Russia to use natural gas to play politics and dominate prices. Of course the American Republican bloc can use high-tech equipments to search for Ukraine’s natural gas right next to Russia’s soil (but not stealing), natural gas drilling don’t have to vertical straight drilling, could be an oblique-angle deep-drill from Ukraine’s soil to oblique-pointing to Russia border. American Republican bloc can occupy our American privatization to build a clean-air, light-water nuclear reactor in Ukraine to sell low-cost utility to Ukrainian households.
Can you see our red-white-blue American Flag ? That’s (R) 2012 DAN QUAYLE Presidential Candidacy’s foreign policy all about to accept Ukraine as an American Commonwealth nation.

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