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Russia to stop supplying Austria with natural gas (www.dw.com)

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The Austrian energy company said it had expected this development and that the country will continue to get gas through import from Germany, Italy and the Netherlands.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 weeks ago

Russia needs to reserve its supply for all of the lucrative trade deals it's about to make with the US.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago

So the reason is that they can't deliver gas beyond the first of January anyway due to Ukraine shutting down the pipeline, and due to unfulfilled obligations they wouldn't receive payments anyway, so they can shut the delivery down right now. And politically, they obviously see no harm in burning even the last few bridges into the West. Or maybe Gazprom is so broke, they can't afford it even if they wanted to.