Last Updated: Monday, 8 January 2007, 11:32 GMT
Russia oil row hits Europe supplyBelarus has halted Russian oil supplies to Poland, Germany and Ukraine
after a trade row with Moscow escalated.
Disruptions hit Transneft's Druzhba pipeline overnight before supplies
were severed completely at Poland's border with Belarus, Polish officials
said.
The problems arose after Belarus began legal action against Transneft
for failure to pay a new oil shipment tax on oil supplies piped through
Belarus.
It signals the latest twist in an energy row between Belarus and Moscow.
The dispute began after Russian energy giant Gazprom forced Belarus to
accept a huge increase in the price of Russian gas.
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