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Serbia to sign big energy deal with Russia
http://uk.reuters.com/article/oilRpt/idUKL2513518020080125 ^

Posted on 01/25/2008 3:18:57 AM PST by kronos77

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1 posted on 01/25/2008 3:18:59 AM PST by kronos77
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To: joan; Smartass; zagor-te-nej; Lion in Winter; Honorary Serb; jb6; Incorrigible; DTA; ma bell; ...
Bulgarians have signed same deal with Russia 7 days ago. AGREEMENT TO INTEGRATE BULGARIA INTO RUSSIA’S GAS NETWORK http://jamestown.org/edm/article.php?article_id=2372745 Basicaly, Russians have cutt-off Europe from oil and gas from Azarbeijan and Turkmenistan, cutting "Naboco" projet...
2 posted on 01/25/2008 3:24:37 AM PST by kronos77 (-www.savekosovo.org- and -www.kosovo.net- Save Kosovo from Islam!)
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To: kronos77

Serbian victory for Putin and Russia Inc
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/a78fc2a4-cadb-11dc-a960-000077b07658.html


3 posted on 01/25/2008 3:25:33 AM PST by kronos77 (-www.savekosovo.org- and -www.kosovo.net- Save Kosovo from Islam!)
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Bulgaria, Serbia deals boost Russia’s gas plans for Europe
http://www.eubusiness.com/news-eu/1201140122.16


4 posted on 01/25/2008 3:26:17 AM PST by kronos77 (-www.savekosovo.org- and -www.kosovo.net- Save Kosovo from Islam!)
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To: kronos77

I hope the Serbian people are not getting hosed by a backroom deal that lines pockets but robs the country.


5 posted on 01/25/2008 4:00:58 AM PST by padre35 (Conservative in Exile/ Isaiah 3.3)
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To: padre35
Yep...
But in the other hand... do Serbs have any other option? Or US and EU pushed Serbs and Bulgarians in Russian hug?

Bulgaria opted for same arrangement plus $3 Bn from Russia for new Nuke power plant, Greece is buying 450 Russian armored transporters and will produce T-80 tanks...

It seems to me that Russians won Balkans without single round fired...

6 posted on 01/25/2008 4:23:48 AM PST by kronos77 (-www.savekosovo.org- and -www.kosovo.net- Save Kosovo from Islam!)
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To: kronos77

Why doesn’t the US do the same? Cancel all Saudi/Venezuelan contracts and get it from the Russians...natural allies.

Send the muslims back to the desert!
Send Chavez back to ignonimity.

And build that bridge!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bering_Strait_bridge


7 posted on 01/25/2008 6:33:50 AM PST by eleni121 (+ En Touto Nika! By this sign conquer! + Constantine the Great)
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To: kronos77
It's more complex than that. Germans own 7% of Gazprom, Italian ENI owns gas fields in Siberia. There is a strong Russian-German axis being built in the backround.

Nabucco is DOA because there is no LNG to fill it.

Also, Russians are not buying transit rights, they involve host countries as a partners. No banana republic style coup can jeopardize the business.

In Cold war Ruskies used oil and gas merely to pay for the military expenditure. Now they use military to guard their energy assets (and assets of their EU partners) and the profits are reinvested in military production for export. EU partners profit handosomely and the flow of money is steady. Capitalism at it's best.

Condi must be shaking her head in disbelief."new Europe", Poland, Baltics, even Ukraine and Belarus are neutralized with this plan. Having a Sovietologist at the head of Department of State is like having an astrologer for the head of NASA.

8 posted on 01/25/2008 6:49:12 AM PST by DTA (Advice to Condi: when you are in a hole, stop digging)
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To: DTA
"Having a Sovietologist at the head of Department of State is like having an astrologer for the head of NASA."

This needs to be repeated.

Sovietology = Scientology, both are now myths.

9 posted on 01/25/2008 7:52:20 AM PST by montyspython (Love that chicken from Popeye's)
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To: DTA; montyspython
"Having a Sovietologist at the head of Department of State is like having an astrologer for the head of NASA"

Problem is that Condi "wants to party like it's 1989" -- she is still treating the Russians as though they are "the Soviets". She needs a new play-book but refuses to acknowledge it, because she spent her whole life studying the old one. "Old dog", "new tricks" ... yada, yada...

10 posted on 01/25/2008 8:33:57 AM PST by Bokababe ( http://www.savekosovo.org)
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Note: Robert Gates is also a Sovietologist.
11 posted on 01/25/2008 8:57:46 AM PST by LjubivojeRadosavljevic
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To: montyspython; DTA; LjubivojeRadosavljevic
The Financial Times
12 posted on 01/25/2008 10:13:09 AM PST by Bokababe ( http://www.savekosovo.org)
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To: Bokababe
What FT does not say is that Russians have inked the deal with another two EU countries (Hungary and Austria) for major LNG hubs and storage facilities.

South stream is an auxiliary lifeline to Germany. And German money is in the Gazprom.

Last but not least, Russian gas will reach Britain through Germany and Belgium.

Therefore, Serbian section of South Stream is in EU interest and EU knows that.

Department of State #3 jumped the ship. No#2 is making a fool of himself in Ljubljana.

What No.1 is doing is anyone's guess.

This is how American support to narcoterrorist "kosova" will end:


13 posted on 01/25/2008 10:56:17 AM PST by DTA (Advice to Condi: when you are in a hole, stop digging)
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Russia is flush with oil/gas production. Go for it, it’s cheap. However, in rough times the history is that Russia’s production can fall to near zero. Keep your options open.


14 posted on 01/25/2008 11:00:11 AM PST by RightWhale (Repeal the law of the excluded middle)
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To: DTA; All

More

http://www.adnkronos.com/AKI/English/Politics/?id=1.0.1810860889


15 posted on 01/25/2008 11:52:56 AM PST by Bokababe ( http://www.savekosovo.org)
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To: DTA
"There is a strong Russian-German axis being built in the backround."

I have to study this gas deal further, because I am lost as to who (beyond the major players) is whose side and how this affects the US and the Kosovo issue.

Because if I get this, then all the Islamic butt-kissing & sellling out of Christians by the US in the Balkans was for absolutely nothing, because it was about the "Nabucco" deal and the fat lady literally just sang on "Nabucco". Is that right?

16 posted on 01/25/2008 12:05:14 PM PST by Bokababe ( http://www.savekosovo.org)
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>>>>>>>>Because if I get this, then all the Islamic butt-kissing & sellling out of Christians by the US in the Balkans was for absolutely nothing<<<<<<<<

Unfortunatelly, it was not for nothing. If was detrimental to vital U.S. interests. Muslims respect only brute force. Once U.S. started accomodating radical Muslim desires and supporting Islamofascists in Bosnia and Kosovo, it lost Muslim respect as a formidable force that has to be feared.

Idiots in Department of State can not understand why Islamofascists hate America. The answer is simple - because they do not fear America any longer.

17 posted on 01/25/2008 12:51:35 PM PST by DTA (Advice to Condi: when you are in a hole, stop digging)
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To: Bokababe
http://uk.reuters.com/article/oilRpt/idUKL2579544020080125
18 posted on 01/25/2008 12:55:11 PM PST by DTA (Advice to Condi: when you are in a hole, stop digging)
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To: RightWhale

Well, if Russians cut us off, we will cut Germany and Western Europe off :)


19 posted on 01/25/2008 1:21:04 PM PST by kronos77 (-www.savekosovo.org- and -www.kosovo.net- Save Kosovo from Islam!)
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To: Bokababe

Three days before Russia-Bulgaria-Serbia gas signing, Nicholas Burns resigned....

http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2008/1/19/worldupdates/2008-01-19T005015Z_01_NOOTR_RTRMDNC_0_-314791-1&sec=Worldupdates


20 posted on 01/25/2008 1:23:50 PM PST by kronos77 (-www.savekosovo.org- and -www.kosovo.net- Save Kosovo from Islam!)
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