The Yamal-Europe pipeline, which normally transports Russian gas into Europe, has shifted into reverse over the last week, triggering a row between Moscow and its western neighbors. Instead of flowing into European markets, which are facing a winter heating crisis due to sky-high prices, gas has been flowing east into Poland and Ukraine, in a development that Russia blames on speculation by German firms. read more The following is an explanation of how the pipeline works. VITAL STATISTICS The Yamal-Europe pipeline is more than 2,000 kilometers (1,243 miles) long and brings gas from the gas-rich Yamal region in the Russian Arctic. It passes through the city of Smolensk in western Russia, runs on through Minsk in Belarus and then travels across Poland before terminating at the Mallnow compressor station near Frankfurt an der Oder near the German-Polish border. Construction of the pipeline began in […]