Lithuania's veteran president on Wednesday appealed to Moscow not to exploit the crisis-hit Baltic country's growing dependence on Russian energy for political reasons.
In an interview with The Associated Press, President Valdas Adamkus said the former Soviet republic is likely to become fully reliant on Russian natural gas supplies once it shuts down a Chernobyl-style nuclear plant later this year.
"As I always said, energy independence is political independence," the 82-year-old leader said. "There will be some years that we will depend on only one single source ... but I appeal here to the goodwill of our neighbor that ... this situation …
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