Brussels, 07/09/2011 (Agence Europe) - Whether by coincidence or accident of timing, the Commission unveiled its strategy to counter the dominance of Russian gas monopoly, Gazprom, on Wednesday 7 September, the day after Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin inaugurated the Nord Stream gas pipeline, which will take Russian gas to Europe under the Baltic Sea, avoiding Poland and the Baltic States, and Gazprom made official the signing in mid-September of the South Stream gas pipeline, which...