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WATCH THE KING OF THE NORTH
Unveiling the New Russia
The Real Truth
JANUARY 30, 2007
In May 2006, both Reuters and
the EU Observer reported that el-
ements of World War II and
the Cold War had returned,
with tensions rising between some
in Europe, Russia and the U.S.
During an April 30th transatlantic
conference in Brussels, Polish De-
fense Minister Mr. Radek Sikorski
compared the new Russian-
German pipeline to the 1939 Mol-
otov-Ribbentrop pact (named af-
ter the Soviet and Nazi foreign
ministers who divided Poland in a
secret protocol).
The new pipeline, around 750 miles “Russia takes first place
long and currently under construction, in oil output rankings.”
will link Russia to Germany under
the Baltic Sea, bypassing That August, the Financial Times reported
Ukraine, Poland and the Baltic that new OPEC statistics indicate Russia
states. Poland has insisted that Ger- had surpassed Saudi Arabia as the
many should have consulted with other world’s largest producer of crude oil.
EU states before proceeding, to which Russia extracted 9.2 million barrels of oil—
EU Energy Commissioner Andris Pie- 46,000 more than Saudi Arabia. Russia’s
balgs agreed. To this day, the issue re- production for the first half of the year was a
mains a point of contention, causing 2.3% year-over-year improvement. The pop-
the Polish government to veto a pro- ulist Komsomolskaya Pravda daily newspa-
posed EU-Russian energy deal in late per ran a story headlined, “Russia takes
2006. first place in oil output rankings.”
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