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Russia Announces Deeper Cuts in Natural Gas Flows to Germany

The New York Times · Melissa Eddy · last updated

Gazprom, Russia’s state energy giant, said it would halve the amount of gas it sends to Germany through the Nord Stream 1 pipeline, bringing it down to 20 percent of capacity.

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