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Nick Stevens Graphics's avatar

Good info, thanks David.

I thought it had all gone well so far, sound like the worst is definitely yet to come.

I was also interested to read in a Balkan Insight article the seldom mention debt of Transnistria, separate from the Moldova fraudulent claims:

"Gazprom referred to an alleged but unspecified debt of 709 million US dollars owed by Moldovagaz, which Gazprom said should be paid by the Moldovan authorities.

However, an independent international audit done in September 2023 set Moldovagaz’s debt to Gazprom at only eight million US dollars, which Chisinau was willing to pay immediately, but Moscow refused.

At the same time, the Transnistrian region already owes Gazprom a colossal 10.5 billion US dollars for gas consumed and never paid for over three decades. "

I don't think I have heard of the 10.5 billion before!

Keep up the good work!

Nick

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ConnieDee's avatar

Thanks for the update! I imagine that my host family will be hosting their Transnistru relatives in the salon that was my room ten years ago. Their house had a hot-water system in the floor for heating which was probably pretty energy efficient. Yet, we had our cold nights.

Who knows, the Transnistria population is not stupid - maybe this will embolden them a bit ...

I'll be in Western Europe this February, so I'm looking at forecasts for European weather, but there are so many models that they leave me neither optimistic nor pessimistic: https://www.severe-weather.eu/long-range-2/winter-2024-2025-snowfall-predictions-early-spring-trends-europe-fa/ So far it's Eastern North America that's getting the polar vortex ...

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