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Poland / Bulgaria: "Not in the interest of Russia to cut brutally" gas supplies
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Photo of a gas compressor station of the Yamal-Europe gas pipeline near Nesvizh, about 130 km (81 miles) southwest of the capital Minsk, Belarus, December 29, 2006. AP - Sergei Grits
By: Florent Guignard Follow
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No more Russian gas since Wednesday April 27 in Poland and Bulgaria.
The Gazprom group announced that it had suspended all its gas deliveries, assuring that these two member countries of the European Union had not made any payment in rubles.
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This is Russia's strongest reaction yet to European sanctions against it over its military offensive in Ukraine.
Europe claims to have prepared for this scenario of interruption of Russian gas and is preparing "a coordinated response" according to the President of the European Commission.
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The decryption of Patrice Geoffron, professor of economics at Paris-Dauphine and director of the Center for Geopolitics of Energy and Raw Materials.
Russian gas supplier Gazprom announced it would suspend delivery to Poland and Bulgaria.
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