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| | Russia Profile - The Pipeline Divide (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18) |
 | | “This is an exceptionally immoral text,” Jan Rokita, the leader of the Civic Platform, a center-right party that came in second with 24.1 percent of the vote, said about the contract and German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder’s defense of it. |
 | | Rokita is set to become the deputy premier and foreign minister in the future Polish government, which will be a coalition of the Civic Platform and Law and Justice (Prawo i Sprawedliwosc, PiS) under premier Jaroslaw Kaczynski, the leader of the PiS. |
 | | The agreement to which Rokita was referring was signed in 1993 and presupposed the shipment of 250 billion cubic meters of Russian natural gas, over a period of 25 years, via the Yamal-Europe pipeline, which Gazprom built from Yamal, in Siberia, to Berlin. |
| www.russiaprofile.org /politics/article.wbp?article-id=988A458F-7753-4F2E-9B98-9100C0AF8D53 (1105 words) |
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