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Russia and China signed a landmark $400 billion deal for a natural gas pipeline from Siberia. The hosts interpret this as a strategic move to bypass the U.S. petrodollar and strengthen the BRICS economic bloc. They suggest the timing of the deal was a deliberate message to the United States government following tensions in Ukraine.
Former Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko is serving a seven-year prison sentence and has begun a hunger strike following allegations of physical abuse by prison authorities. Tymoshenko was convicted of abuse of power related to a 2009 gas deal signed with Russian leader Vladimir Putin. Protesters in Kiev have marched in support of Tymoshenko as she faces new charges of tax evasion.
