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Putin hits at European investment ’double standards’

By Hugh Williamson in Berlin, Peter Ehrlich in Tomsk and Neil Buckley in Moscow

Published: April 27 2006 19:42 | Last updated: April 27 2006 19:42

Russia’s President Vladimir Putin yesterday stepped up his attacks on Europe over access to energy markets, accusing the continent of double standards towards Moscow.

Speaking in Tomsk, Siberia, after talks with Angela Merkel, the German chancellor, he said: ”When [European] companies come to us it's called investment and globalisation, but when we go there it's called expansion by Russian companies.”

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