It would reduce Russia's dependence on the transit countries as for the first time it would link Russia directly to Western Europe.

Russian workers are scheduled to build the first highway bridge linking North Korea and Russia.

Railway built across Mongolia linking Russia and China.

Poor people here don't think about their strategic oil pipelines or the train tracks through the region linking Russia with the Caspian Sea.

The project, which was formally inaugurated last week, is a Russian-led consortium to build a pipeline linking Russia and Germany.

The best form of cooperation would be if pipelines were built linking Russia and the EU.

Instead, it will link Russia and Germany directly, thus putting the energy security of one third of the EU at risk.

We also support the inclusion on the list of Europe-wide gas networks the one linking Russia's and Norway's gas resources.

It's a hokey literary device, but one that allows Harris to link Russia's gloomy present to its terrifying past.

The latter, said Mr. Yanukovich, would be a step toward the creation of a single economic unit linking Russia and Ukraine.