Russian People’s Interests VS Gas

President Putin never seizes to repeat, that he is ready to protect the Russian-speaking population in Ukraine or elsewhere in the world. Therefore, why back in 2003, as the result of a few treaties with the president of Turkmenistan Niyazov, Russia’s leader Vladimir Putin traded 120,000 people with double Russian-Turkmen citizenship (mostly ethnic Russians and Russian speakers) residing in Turkmenistan for the import of 70-80 billion cubic meters of gas annually? The infographic below portrays all the details of a «favourable» deal…

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