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January 7, 2009

Russia Cuts Off Gas Exports to Much of Europe
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Exports of Russian gas to Europe via Ukraine appear to have completely
stopped amid a dispute over gas supplies between the two countries. The
BBC reports EU depends on Russia for about a quarter of its total gas
supplies, some 80 percent of which is pumped through Ukraine. The list
of countries that have reported a total halt of Russian gas via Ukraine
includes Romania, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Bosnia-Herzegovina,
Bulgaria, Croatia, Greece, Hungary, Macedonia, Serbia and Austria. In
eastern Bulgaria, some 12,000 households have been left without central
heating.



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