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The fallout from Europe’s energy crisis

oscow’s “indefinite shutdown of Nord Stream 1”, Russia’s main gas connection to Germany, “was supposed to be the Kremlin’s big weapon that would send the wholesale price to new stratospheric levels”, say Ben Hall, Valentina Romei and Sam Fleming in the Financial Times. So far it hasn’t worked.

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