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He received me in his room at the town’s sole hotel for foreigners, a drab establishment called the Druzhba Friendship, which Steiger had nicknamed “The Elba,” implying, as he told me, that he had every intention of escaping as soon as possible.
The Great Experiment Strobe Talbott 2008
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Oil tanks of pipe-line "Druzhba" are seen in the town of Novopolotsk, 230 km north of Minsk, Thursday, Jan. 4, 2007.
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Oil tanks of pipe-line "Druzhba" are seen in the town of Novopolotsk, 230 km north of Minsk, Thursday, Jan. 4, 2007.
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It runs through Ukraine, from the Odessa Black Sea maritime terminal in the south to the Brody connection with the Druzhba pipeline in the north.
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The original idea in building the pipeline was to allow oil from the Caspian Sea region to be transported to Brody, for Druzhba pipeline shipment to Slovakia, Hungary, and onward.
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The following are projects passing through Southeastern Europe, although there are other proposed projects — such as reversal of the Brody-Odessa pipeline, the Adria pipeline/Druzhba integration project, and the Samsun-Ceyhan pipeline — that would relieve tanker traffic.
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The Druzhba (Friendship) pipeline transports Russian crude oil to the Visegrad countries and onward to Western Europe.
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Western concerns spent ridiculous sums to divert oil and gas to Europe via a more politically secure and reliable route through Azerbaijan, Georgia, and Turkey along the Baku-T'blisi-Ceyhan (BTC) pipeline They created the longest conduit in the world with the single exception of the Friendship (or Druzhba) pipeline that travels 2,500 miles from Ukraine to Germany.
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In December 2002, the governments of Russia, Belarus, Ukraine, Slovakia, Hungary, and Croatia signed an agreement to integrate and expand the capacity of the Druzhba and Adria pipeline systems in order to facilitate the transportation of Russian crude oil to the Croatian deepwater port of Omisalj.
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At this point, the Ukrainian government arranged for Russian oil companies to run the pipeline in the opposite direction, taking their oil south from the Druzhba connection at Brody and transporting it to Odessa for loading onto tanker ships in the Black Sea.
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