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    RUSSIA DID NOT DERAIL NABUKO
    NAIRA HAYRUMYAN

    LRAGIR.AM
    14:00:00 - 01/07/2009

    Russian and Azerbaijan signed a contract on the procurement of
    500 million cubic meters of gas a year. In order to conclude this
    contract Dmitri Medvedev went to Baku. During a joint press conference,
    Medvedev and Aliyev have repeatedly stated that the contract is not
    political, but commercial, but this has not prevented the Russian and
    foreign newspapers to state that the contract was merely to frustrate
    the contract on the construction of Nabucco gas pipeline bypassing
    Russia. The point is that in order to fill the Nabucco, its architects
    had hoped for Azeri gas. The calculations did not entirely justify,
    and the signing of the agreement is postponed till the end of July.

    But, apparently, Azerbaijan has made quite a canny move. During the
    press conference of the presidents, the statement that Russia has
    bought the entire Azeri gas was not made, which Moscow sought. The
    point is only about a part of the stock. Another part seems to go to
    Nabucco. The sheep will be intact, and the wolves satisfied.

    In general, Russia does not need such scale of the Azerbaijani gas,
    because it does not solve the main problem - to derail Nabucco. So,
    Medvedev's joy is a good mine in a bad game.

    As to Nabucco, according to the contract, it is likely to be started
    being built in 2011. However, its final itinerary is not approved
    yet. And there is another option for those who want to keep up with
    global processes.

    Notably, the Azerbaijani-Russian warming is happening against the
    backdrop of acidic mine which Moscow built after Mikhail Saakashvili's
    visit to Armenia, and his awarding with the Order of Merit.
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