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On Tuesday November 8, German Federal Chancellor Angela Merkel together with Russia’s President Dmitry Medvedev and the Prime Ministers of France François Fillon and the Netherlands Mark Rutte, and EU Energy Commissioner Günther Oettinger, formally inaugurated the first of Nord Stream’s twin 1,224-km gas pipelines through the Baltic Sea. OUR COVER PICTURE shows the final ‘golden’ weld being prepared prior to this pipeline – the world’s longest subsea pipeline – becoming operational.
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