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A Nord Stream gas pipeline running from Russia to Germany will diversify supply lines to Europe, a need underscored by a recent supply disruption, Russia said. The need to diversify routes of supplying gas from my country to EU member states has been underlined by this crisis, Russian ambassador Vladimir Chizhov told the EU Observer, referring to recent disruptions caused by a dispute between Russia and Ukraine. The new natural gas pipeline would be completed by 2011, the newspaper reported...

MOSCOW. Sept 2 (Interfax) - Russia will not halt energy shipments to Europe over the European Union's reaction to events in South Ossetia, Russia's EU envoy Vladimir Chizhov said. "I would like to dispel the fears that Russia may allegedly stop shipping oil and gas. All this is rubbish!" Chizhov said in a TV linkup from Brussels on Tuesday. Asked whether the recently announced plan to diversify energy supplies was Russia's reaction to its contradictions with the West, Chizhov said, "The...