{"id":482085,"date":"2022-04-04T11:24:09","date_gmt":"2022-04-04T05:54:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=482085"},"modified":"2022-04-04T13:00:16","modified_gmt":"2022-04-04T07:30:16","slug":"lithuania-cuts-off-russian-gas-imports-urges-eu-to-do-same","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/lithuania-cuts-off-russian-gas-imports-urges-eu-to-do-same\/","title":{"rendered":"Lithuania cuts off Russian gas imports, urges EU to do same"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a move to break its energy dependence upon Moscow, Lithuania has cut itself off entirely of gas imports from Russia, allegedly becoming the first of the European Union&#8217;s 27 nations that use Russian gas to do so, a statement said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSeeking full energy independence from Russian gas, in response to Russia&#8217;s energy blackmail in Europe and the war in Ukraine, Lithuania has completely abandoned Russian gas,\u201d Lithuania&#8217;s energy ministry said in a statement on Saturday. According to the statement, the measure took effect in the beginning of April.<\/p>\n<p>Lithuania managed to reduce imports of Russian gas to zero on Saturday, a move seen a milestone in achieving energy independence in the former Soviet republic of 2.8 million, the ministry said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a move to break its energy dependence upon Moscow, Lithuania has cut itself off entirely of gas imports from Russia, allegedly becoming the first of the European Union&#8217;s 27 nations that use Russian gas to do so, a statement said. \u201cSeeking full energy independence from Russian gas, in response to Russia&#8217;s energy blackmail in Europe and the war in Ukraine, Lithuania has completely abandoned Russian gas,\u201d Lithuania&#8217;s energy ministry said in a statement on Saturday. According to the statement, the measure took effect in the beginning of April. Lithuania managed to reduce imports of Russian gas to zero on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130,211,144],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-482085","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-oil-gas-the-pioneer","category-the-pioneer"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/482085","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=482085"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/482085\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=482085"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=482085"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=482085"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}