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| People in Kyrgyzstan will likely feel warmer this winter, but the extra heat will come at quite a price: the government signed a deal last w...

| The announcement this week that Turkmen gas riches may exceed the West’s wildest dreams is likely to focus attention back on pipeline projec...

| Russia is pressing for the creation of a new organization, dubbed the Caspian Economic Cooperation Organization, in an apparent bid to incre...

| Hydrocarbon prices, new nuclear and hydro-power plants, oil blackmail - energy is now one of the central issues discussed in the world. Even...

| Nord Stream is led by Matthias Warnig, former Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Russian subsidiary of Dresdner Bank. Before that he...

| Despite the fact that the Nord Stream pipeline clearly contributes to German energy security, the German public has never been in favour of...

| Outside the pipeline industry, not many people have heard of the German company Europipe. Yet the firm in Mülheim an der Ruhr is the world’s...

| The Swedes fear the increased Russian presence in the Baltic Sea that Nord Stream would bring. They also feel they have nothing to gain by t...

| It was, more than anything else, the European Parliament who got Alan Riley, Professor at the City Law School in London, involved in Nord St...

| Few European infrastructure projects have met with greater suspicion and resistance than the Nord Stream pipeline, which is to carry Russian...