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International Affairs: Pavel Nikolayevich, your report opened the 9th Annual International Conference "Russia-EU Energy Dialogue: Gas Aspect. " How did the worsening of relations between Russia and Europe over the situation in Ukraine affect the conference?
P. Zavalny: The "Russia-EU Energy Dialogue: Gas Aspect" conference is a joint event held for many years by the Russian Gas Society and the European gas industry association Eurogas with the participation of the European Commission's Directorate-General for Energy. At first, the conference met in Berlin, but in the past three years it has met in Brussels, the decision-making center in the area of EU energy policy. As a rule, all our conferences were rich in content, with concrete and sometimes heated debates, and were always attended by high-ranking officials from both sides, parliamentarians, top managers of major energy companies, experts, and researchers.
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