Poland and Bulgaria Are Moving Away From Russian Gas

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Russia is cutting off the gas supply to poland and bulgaria. It's really the most aggressive economic sanction that russia has imposed on the west to date during this war. Both countries import a very high fraction, in bulgaria's case, essentially all its gas from russia. In neither country is gas a crucial part of the energy mixed.

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