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The turmoil in
Chechnya made the old pipeline of
Baku—Makhachkala—Grozny—Tikhoretsk—Novorossijsk, which crossed the
mutinous territory, unsafe. Russia proposed a new northern route for
the pipeline,
Baku—Makhachkala—Kizliar—Budyonovsk—Tikhoretsk—Novorossijsk, which
would bypass Chechnya. However, some interested countries, including
the United States, favored an alternative southern route, which
would go through Georgia and Turkey to the Mediterranean, bypassing
the Russian territory altogether. |
