Belarus cuts off Latvia from Russian oil
Published: 22 July, 2009, 11:30
Belarus has shut off the pipeline which carries over 10 million tons of oil a year to Latvia from Russia. The country’s Emergency Ministry states that it is due to the poor condition of the pipe.
If Europe doesn't want to be continually held up to oil-blackmail, they had better get on the ball and agree to another pipeline. Nordstream is the one closest to completion, and Nabucco is years away from even an agreement but it will probably be needed, eventually. How many more years does Europe want to freeze in the dark, while a transit country tries to blackmail countries on both ends of the line? Is Russia responsible for "maintenance" of the pipelines that run through independent countries? Or is Europe expecting Russia to just "take over" Belarus and "handle it" ?










Failure to express clear and distinct difference between Russian communism and its induction in the environment – might be the definition for this situation. Russia is offering to her communist “friends” the most wishful industrial product – the pipe passing through “their” lands, which “Russian missed” to maintain. This is the top achievement of East European communist technology: Give us the pipe and the invincible heaven – and we charge trespassers through the soil and over our heads. We take Western loans and produce our own taxes. Russians are to care for our defense. Or NATO, never mind, anybody, depends on the accounting. Because - we are not for maintenance. Like Tito, Ceausescu legacy…”With blood we govern men”. But - with shifting we govern Russia…We interpret her to the West, because she failed to maintain her political capital. Said Putin: “There is not a single institution of our past we can use today”. But to face this painful statement of the facts, Russia is to make distinction between her communism and the one in East Europe or elsewhere.