Windfall revenues from high European gas prices mean Russia’s Gazprom will not start pumping gas through the Nord Stream 2 pipeline before certification and it will not press Germany to speed up the process, two sources said. Pumping gas without the German approval would only incur a modest fine, but as Germany gets new political leadership and Russia’s ties with the West are severely strained, a source at Gazprom said it was content to wait. “We don’t want to seek faster approval for the pipeline. Now it’s Germany that is in charge,” the source said on condition of anonymity. The same source said that Gazprom, Russia’s biggest […]