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How did Donald Tusk, the Prime Minister of Poland from November 16, 2007 to September 22, 2014, allow Poland to hit a level where 60% of its gas was imported from Russia on his watch?

economist.com/eastern-approa…
Most likely had something to do with the Yamal-Europe pipeline, which started construction in 1992, with an agreement between Russia, Poland and Belarus in 1993.

Wingas GmbH helped build it, a subsidiary of Gazprom and Wintershall.
October 10, 2010.

"The European Commission has stepped up efforts to prevent Russian energy giant Gazprom from reaching an accord with Poland that would lock the country into long-term natural gas contracts..."

nytimes.com/2010/10/11/bus…
"The proposed deal envisages Poland's increasing its gas imports from Russia by three billion cubic meters a year, to 10.5 billion cubic meters, starting in 2011. Gazprom wants the contract to run until 2037."

nytimes.com/2010/10/11/bus…
"The Polish part of the Yamal pipeline is owned and operated by Europol Gaz, which is owned by Gazprom and P.G.N.I.G., the state-owned Poland oil and gas company. Each holds a 48 percent stake. These two companies hold the remaining 4 percent in a joint venture, Gas Trading."
EuRoPoL GAZ's supervisory board includes Alexander Medvedev, Piotr Grzegorz, Wozniak, Radoslaw Bartosik, Elena Burmistrova, Marek Drzewiecki, Igor Fedorov, Dmitry Khandoga, Bugoslaw Marzec and Michal Pietrzyk.

europolgaz.com.pl/en/company/aut…
EuRoPoL GAZ's managing board includes Piotr Tutak, Yury Kaluzhskiy, Krzysztof Rogala and Evgeny Vasyukov.

europolgaz.com.pl/en/company/aut…
Igor Fedorov is the President of Bauman Moscow State Technical University, and is on the Scientific Advisory Council at the Skolkovo Foundation, which donated between $10,001.00 to $25,000.00 to the Clinton Foundation and is chaired by Viktor Vekselberg.

sk.ru/foundation/tea…
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