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Tuesday, June 30, 2009

Buying Africa

It's the rubber trade all over again, except this time it's the Russians and Chinese instead of the Belgians and Portuguese.

Gazprom seals $2.5bn Nigeria deal

And yes, the name of the new joint venture is called "Nigaz." I shit you not.
Posted by Locke at 11:33 AM
Labels: russians with gas

1 comment:

plinehan said...

Oh man.

June 30, 2009 at 12:45 PM

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