Europe's gas bills

Postimees newspaper critices Russia's course of action in Abkhazia and South Ossetia: "One major question is what will happen if things next start heating up in Ukraine or Moldova. One cannot just shut one's eyes to the fact that Russia has violated the territory of a sovereign state and established a so-called zone of protection in Georgia. But this will will prove almost inconsequential so long as the French presidential palace and the German Chancellery continue to be heated with Russian gas. Russia is no longer the country it was ten years ago, but Western Europe is nevertheless buckling under Russian pressure and paying its gas bills which grow day by day. And Moscow knows the West is ready to bite a few even bigger bullets lest deliveries be suspended."

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