Explosions at Nord Stream pipelines: is an oligarch behind it? – Politics
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Andromeda and the Poking in the Mist
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The Nord Stream 2 gas leak near the Danish island of Bornholm was still clearly visible from the air days after the blasts.
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Shortly after the attacks on the Nord Stream pipelines, a spectacular suspicion was circulating: is a Ukrainian oligarch behind it? And what role does a sailing yacht with a mythological name play?
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Markus BalserFlorian Flade, Christopher Koopmann and Jorg SchmittBerlin
Tuesday is “cult day” for Germany’s news services. That’s what a former president of the Federal Intelligence Service (BND) once called the group that meets every Tuesday morning in a tap-proof room in the Federal Chancellery. The heads of the BND, the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution and the military counter-intelligence service report to the government on what’s going on in the secret world. Intelligence situation, or “ND situation” for short, is what the top-secret group calls itself.
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