An announcement: In case you’ve been wondering what’s happened to our correspondent Grigory Pasko, he’s spent the past two weeks on assignment, filming and doing interviews in four countries – Finland, Sweden, Germany, and Denmark – in an attempt to get a grasp on what is going on with the project for the construction of the Nord Stream gas pipeline along the bottom of the Baltic Sea. I had a chance to catch up with Grigory in Berlin last week, where he told me that the project seems to have “frozen up” like a complicated computer. But here, why don’t I let him tell you in his own words? – Robert Amsterdam Nord Stream, Scandinavian Style By Grigory Pasko, journalist Yes indeed, I can’t help but get the impression that despite all the bold declarations by representatives of the company Nord Stream, the project is starting to lose traction and spin its wheels, as it were. And this because of the position of certain Scandinavian countries. For example, because of Sweden’s position. The irony of Clio, the goddess of history, is that both the German city of Greifswald, where the undersea pipeline will end, and the Russian city of Vyborg, where it will start, were both Swedish cities in their day. (Photo: The author and the sea – in Visby, Gotland. By Rolf Jonsson)