The launch of the second section of the Nord Stream gas pipeline

From right: Nord Stream CEO Matthias Warnig, Nord Stream AG head of the shareholders' committee Gerhard Schroeder, Gazprom CEO Alexei Miller and Russian Presidential Executive Office head Sergei Ivanov during the launch of the second section of the Nord Stream gas pipeline, in Vyborg. Source: Alexey Kudenko/RIA Novosti

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