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14 January 2010 By Pierre Briancon

Moscow and Minsk are fighting over the price of Russian oil that Belarus reexports westward about 10% of the EU’s oil consumption. A cutoff would cause problems, but pipeline politics don’t work as well for oil as for gas. Consumers of Russian oil have more alternatives.

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