Putin on Nabucco

I think this is my favorite Putin quote to date:

“You can build a pipeline or even two, three, or five. The question is what fuel you put through it and where do you get that fuel. If someone wants to dig into the ground and bury metal there in the form of a pipeline, please do so, we don’t object.” Sarcastically, Putin dismissed the notion of a competition between Nabucco and South Stream: “There can be no competition when one project has the gas and the other does not” (Interfax, February 28; Rossiiskaya gazeta, February 29).

More awesome Putin quotes can be found here. We can only hope that Medvedev will be equally as entertaining (although I’m not counting on it).

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