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Ukrainian Foreign Minister Kostyantyn Gryshchenko called Russian plans for a new pipeline to Europe “wasteful and unnecessary,” as Ukraine seeks to keep its position as the main transit route for Siberian natural gas. The European Union and Russia would be better off making “very limited additional investment” in Ukraine’s existing pipeline network rather than building the South Stream project, Gryshchenko told reporters today in Moscow. Read the story here.