Poland and Belarus have stopped accepting shipments of Russian oil through the Soviet-era Druzhba pipeline, saying Western buyers in Poland and Germany cannot accept the Russian crude because it is contaminated and of poor quality.
RFE/RL: Belarus, Poland stop accepting Russian oil via Druzhba pipeline
A Belarus villager cuts grass near an oil-pump station "Gomel", part of the "Druzhba" pipeline in a village of Bobovichi some 330 km south-east of Minsk, 11 January 2007.
