Russia Goes For Global Gas Dominance

Despite the newly announced U.S. sanctions against the Nord Stream 2 project, Russia says it will build and launch next year the natural gas pipeline that has divided Europe for half a decade.    With Nord Stream 2, Russia’s President Vladimir Putin will have several major natural gas projects completed in the past few years, Bloomberg Opinion’s Europe columnist Leonid Bershidsky writes. These projects will complete Putin’s plan to have Moscow not only continue holding a large share of gas supplies to Europe, but branch…