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    BBC: Bulgaria picks up the pieces of cancelled Russian pipeline

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Many believe that the cancellation of the South Stream is a bluff, designed to put pressure on Bulgaria and to persuade Brussels to change course.

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BBC: Bulgaria picks up the pieces of cancelled Russian pipeline

Stand on the sea wall next to the port in Varna and you can see the bits and pieces of South Stream piled up in front of you.

Hundreds of long black sections of piping - some on the dockside, and others still stacked on cargo ships.

They were supposed to have been laid beneath the gloomy waters of the Black Sea, bypassing Ukraine and bringing Russian gas directly to south-eastern Europe.

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