Special Report, Travel, Americas

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The original Nord Stream pipeline was completed in 2012, runs parallel with its new companion and likewise terminates at Greifswald but has a different point of origin - Vyborg, on the northern coast of the Gulf of Finland. Perhaps most significantly given the present diplomatic crisis, the two pipelines together would have allowed Russia to send gas west by means other than directly through its neighbour’s territory, which it previously relied upon and for which Kiev received lucrative transit fees. Russian president Vladimir Putin, a former KGB officer, is said to have resented Ukraine’s independence since the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1989, particularly its desire to secure greater military protection by joining Nato. Like his annexation of the Crimean Peninsula in 2014 or subsequent tacit encouragement of the pro-Russian separatists in the eastern industrial heartland of Donbas, the pipeline could be seen as further punishment for Kiev’s rejection of his influence. His Ukrainian counterpart, Volodymyr Zelensky, has previously warned that the Nord Stream project represents a “dangerous geopolitical weapon” and is not alone among world leaders in fearing that Russia could have used it to exert political leverage over the EU by threatening to withhold gas in winter if its political whims are not indulged. Germany, under its previous chancellor Angela Merkel, has long dismissed those blackmail fears as hysterical, insisting the project is a purely commercial venture that will enable it to heat 26m homes and aid its transition away from nuclear power towards renewables. However, with Europe already mired in an energy crisis and Gazprom recently declining to replenish its stores on the continent to the expected extent in order to shield itself from exposure, Russian ruthlessness should be taken as a given.




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