... “Now, for Russia, this gas hub has become purely a matter of image. First, Russia initially proposed this Turkish gas hub, and it would not look good to back out of it now. Second, the hub is important for international interaction. It's like with BRICS: we were threatened with international isolation, but we gathered half the world, and everyone came to Kazan. Europe wanted to abandon our gas, and we opened a whole gas hub. But from an economic standpoint, there is no benefit. Everything that ...