"The Americans are not even very worried about the obvious expansion of Russian LNG from Yamal into European markets," says Frida Ghitis. Ghitis: "The very presence of Russian gas in European markets does not worry American business very much" She says the U.S.
is more concerned about the "non-competitive" price of Russian pipeline gas, which gave it a serious competitive advantage to continental industry. "For the sake of this, as theoretically, they were right to remain silent here," Ghitis says.