Berlin's Russia challenge.

From: The National Interest | Date: March 1, 2007| Author: Stent, Angela | Copyright information

RUSSIA HAS found an innovative way to ring in the New Year with its European partners: threatening to cut off energy supplies. At the beginning of 2006, it was gas exports through Ukraine; in January 2007, it was oil supplies through Belarus. Although President Lukashenko backed down and oil again flowed to Europe, the actions of pipeline monopoly Transneft--and President Putin's failure to inform Germany about the impending cutoff--presented German Chancellor Angela Merkel with an...

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