Observatoire des droits humains (anglais seulement)

How Russia is using gas as a political tool to win support for the Ukraine war

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par Stephen Hall, Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in Politics, International Relations and Russia, University of Bath

Russia is using its dominance of the European oil and gas market, where it accounts for 40% of EU gas consumption, to attempt to reduce support for Ukraine.

To ramp up that pressure ahead of the winter, Russia has closed off the Nord Stream 1 pipeline to Germany from August 31 to September 3 – ostensibly for maintenance, but probably as an attempt to seek concessions from Brussels over sanctions relief.…

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