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"The ‘Nord Stream’ builders have scheduled the construction of the gas pipeline to start in 2008, without having done a study of the bed of the Baltic Sea and with no knowledge of what is in the wartime ammunition dump on the seabed. However, they have now realised that it would be more convenient to lay the pipeline closer to the Estonian coast, within Estonia's economic zone.
If that were not enough, the Kremlin is now making preparations to authorise Gazprom to create its own well-armed army, which, together with the navies of the Baltic countries, would protect the gas pipeline being laid along the bed of the Baltic Sea toward Germany.
According to certain news media sources, such armed units would have the right to search people and their means of transport, and even to use weapons in the course of effecting protection of property and territory.
In this we can see Russia's intentions not only to increase its naval strength in the Baltic Sea, but also to take advantage of increased opportunities for espionage in the vicinity of the gas pipeline. Is Russia coordinating its actions with Germany? Is a new 1939 (Hitler-Stalin Pact) dawning? Are we, the nations of a democratic European Union, going to permit such self-indulgence?"@en1
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