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Just trying to demonstrate their dominance over the Caspian Sea natural gas pipelines that were built to avoid going thru Russia.
Russia's had quite a turnaround over the past 8 years, and has become perhaps the world's greatest energy power in terms of natural gas ... which sees widespread use in Europe. They're just flexing their muscles and saying, 'not so fast ... we can ultimately control everything that goes thru this region, whether it's officially our territory or not.'
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