Gazprom feels the heat
New US sanctions on Russia may create problems for the country's gas export giant
Donald Trump's America was supposed to be a friend to Russia. But new US sanctions—engineered by Congress, not the White House—are revising opinions. The new measures have some bite, and may even endanger the completion of Gazprom pipelines to Europe as well as jeopardise the gas-export monopoly's alliances with other Western partners. Gazprom certainly thinks so. It made the admission in that the new sanctions could threaten construction of Nord Stream 2 and Turkish Stream in a Eurobond prospectus issued in mid-July, before Trump grudgingly signed off Congress's bill on 2 August. US lawmakers said the new sanctions are a response to Russian aggression in Ukraine and efforts to influence the
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