reminder #Nordstream
1. January 2006 explosions in southern #Russia hit gas pipe & elect tower, halt energy supplies 2 Georgia.
2. April 2009 explosion at Central Asia Tsentr4 pipe suspends gas exports from #Turkmenistan 2 Russia.
What did Moscow say-->1/1
1. pro-Chechen insurgents are behind the explosions.
2. #Turkmenistan 's aging pipeline system needs repair & reconstruction.
Explosions coincidently but timely served #Russia 's interests-->1/2
1. Russia's economic coercion against Georgia; response to demands 2 evacuate Russian bases.
2. #Gazprom struggles to absorb all gas volumes contracted in Central Asia; the gas from the region is too expensive.
Effects-->1/3
1. In 2007 Georgia switches to gas imports from Azerbaijan via Baku-Tbilisi-Erzurum as Shah Deniz comes on stream.
2. #Turkmenistan agrees to expand gas pipeline and volumes of gas supplied to #China . 1/4
Russia's tried & tested economic warfare tactics in the South Caucasus & Central Asia are now deployed against the EU. It was a mistake to assume that what happens to neighbours won't happen to us. 1/5

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