Financial Times: Gazprom inquiry sheds light on energy inequities

The EU’s move to open an antitrust investigation into Gazprom, the Russian energy company, was billed in Brussels as a purely legal development.

But in Vilnius, it was celebrated as an unlikely victory for Lithuania in a David-and-Goliath struggle against the Baltic nation’s former Soviet master.

Lithuanians have long complained that state-owned Gazprom has used its clout to make them pay the highest gas prices in Europe as punishment for their determination to shrug off Moscow.  MORE