Russia and Belarus remain at loggerheads
Russia and Belarus remained at loggerheads today in a damaging row that has severely disrupted the flow of Russian oil to Europe as a news report said that Moscow was considering major retaliatory steps to force its neighbour into submission.
Some Russian media and analysts said that the Kremlin appeared determined to tough it out, despite the damage to Russia’s reputation as a key energy supplier to the European Union, which has strongly criticised the shutdown of a pipeline that transports crude to Germany and much of Eastern Europe via Belarus.
