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Russia to Cut Oil Supplies to Europe In Response to Sanctions
Russia’s government may prompt at least one oil company to cut supplies of crude oil to Europe in response to the threats to impose sanctions in the wake of the conflict with Georgia.
It is rumored that supplies via Druzhba pipeline that meets oil requirements of Poland and Germany will be probably reduced and that the LUKOIL leadership has been given the notice.
The reduction might happen already starting from September 1, the sources speculate. People in LUKOIL, however, say they know nothing about the plans to cut down supplies, and people in the Kremlin declined to comment.
French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner declared yesterday that the EU was deliberating whether to impose sanctions on Russia in the wake of events in South Ossetia and Georgia. Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov called the idea the product of deformed imagination, while the RF Envoy to the EU Vladimir Chizhov warned that the sanctions could negatively affect the EU and the extent will be equal or event bigger than for Russia.
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