'Yats' Wants EU To Nix Russian Pipeline

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Ukraine Prime Minister Arseniy “Yats” Yatsenyuk has a future as a U.S. natural gas lobbyist in Washington.

The man made famous by U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Victoria Nuland in February in a leaked conversation with American diplomat Geoffrey Pyatt in Kiev thinks Europe should block Russia’s planned construction of a new gas pipeline.  If the new South Stream gas pipeline is built, it will deliver natural gas directly to Russia’s most important customer — Europe — without having to pipe it through that troubling piece of real estate known as Ukraine.

Russia and Ukraine have been locking horns since late 2013, when president Viktor Yanukovych nixed a trade deal with Europe in order to move his country closer to Russia.

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