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To: steve harris who wrote (445561)	1/7/2009 5:26:13 AM
From: Taro	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 1574004

Putin and 'Global Warming' letting us down in Europe. Taro Russia Cuts Gas, and Europe Shivers The Druzhba thermal power station in Sofia, Bulgaria, on Tuesday after the suspension of Russian gas supplies to the country. MOSCOW — Gazprom, the Russian gas monopoly, halted nearly all its natural gas exports to Europe on Tuesday, sharply escalating its pricing dispute with neighboring Ukraine. The cutoff led to immediate shortages from France to Turkey and underscored Moscow’s increasingly confrontational posture toward the West. Across Europe, countries reported precipitous drops in gas pressure in their pipelines at the peak of the winter heating season in a bitterly cold January.. nytimes.com