EU begins countdown to fresh Russia gas crunch

Experts are divided on how a Belarus gas shutdown could hit the EU, with Poland’s Gazeta Wyborcza citing analysts who say the Russian-owned Yamal pipeline would keep flowing, leaving just Riga and Vilnius in the cold.

But Polish daily Rzeczpospolita writes that when Russia shut down supplies to Beltransgaz for one day in 2004, Belarus began using EU transit gas and caused a crunch that forced several Polish companies to halt work.
EU Observer