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The administrations of Vladimir Putin and Dmitri Medvedev seem to point to one and the same Kremlin principle: destroy political opponents and crush every vestige of opposition. In Russia, the opposition is maligned and persecuted. Media is censored. Critical journalists are killed or subjected to severe harassment as in the cases of Anna Politkovskaya [...]

According to the 2006 records of the European Council on Foreign Relations, the following countries are totally dependent on Russia for their gas supplies: Latvia, Slovakia, Finland, and Estonia. The following countries are more than 50 percent dependent on the same gas supply: Bulgaria, Lithuania, Czech Republic, Greece, Austria, and Hungary. With [...]