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By building new gazeoducs through Poland and Bulgaria - after the crisis of 2009, Gazprom has reduced the traffic through Ukraine at 35% of their exports.

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The transnational Yamal – Europe gas pipeline runs across four countries: Russia, Belarus, Poland and Germany. The new export corridor increased flexibility and reliability of Russian gas supply to Western Europe. The gas pipeline construction started in 1994 and in 2006 theYamal – Europe gas pipeline reached its design capacity of 32.9 billion cubic meters.