Nord Stream online: Russia’s gas export policy reset

The Czech Republic is relatively immune to risks arising from the new Russian gas export route, but its neighbors have cause to worry

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Vratislav Ludvík | 09.11.2011

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The world’s longest submarine gas pipeline was launched into commercial operation on Tuesday

On Tuesday, November 8, the first of the two lines of the Nord Stream gas pipeline was launched into full operation. Just before midday in Lubmin on Germany’s Baltic Sea coast, German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Russian President Dmitry Medvedev made a symbolic turn of a large tap to officially launch commercial operation of the first of two lines of the Nord Stream gas pipeline. The longest submarine gas pipeline in the world is set to change the dynamics of the European gas market.

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