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...flows through Ukraine, and Russia provides 25% of Europe's gas. The latest cuts are the result of a dispute between Russia and Ukraine over the price Ukraine should pay for gas. Russian energy monopoly Gazprom says the per-unit price of $179 that Ukraine pays is a subsidized relic from the Cold War-era and that it is no longer offset by Ukrainian pumping services for Gazprom's clients in Europe. Gazprom wants to raise the price to $450 and also fine Ukraine's national gas company, Naftogaz, for allegedly expropriating millions of cubic meters of gas that Russia...
Kept in the basement of the Asiatic Society library, a colonnaded marble building in Mumbai's colonial heart, is perhaps the Indian financial capital's least heralded relic: one of the two oldest surviving manuscripts of Italian poet Dante Alighieri's Divine Comedy. Its some 450 richly illustrated pages, dating from the 1350s, are bound and wrapped in red silk. Though the book rarely goes on display, Society staff insist the medieval text is in excellent condition. It came to Mumbai in the possession of a 19th century British antiquarian grandee, the imperially named Mountstuart Elphinstone, and has stayed...
...worth noting that barely half of the companies that Mercer examined reported sponsoring a so-called defined pension plan: Simply put, it's becoming a relic, as companies scale back retirement options to shave one of the most expensive employee costs...
...Pentagon budget, he should do more than just cut. He should cut intelligently, promoting innovative programs that are key to modern peacekeeping and state-building and scrapping those that are proven failed or outdated. A program such as missile defense, both an obvious error and a relic of the Cold War, should be first on the chopping block...
...which laid the foundation for an end to sectarian violence in the British province. And after bulldozers razed most of the former prison buildings last year, the site where Bobby Sands and nine other Republican militants died in a hunger strike in 1981 became little more than an abandoned relic of Northern Ireland's darkest days. (See pictures of how Northern Ireland has transformed itself...