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KYIV - Moscow flexed its geopolitical muscles last week with the welding together of two pipes in southern Russia: the formal launch of construction on a new natural gas pipeline to southern Europe.

The $20 billion project, called South Stream, is the latest bid in the
Kremlin’s drive to “divide and fuel” the European energy market by
making lucrative deals with individual countries. They are undermining
the European Union’s efforts to lessen dependence on Moscow by building
its own pipeline that would avoid Russia.

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