Riga - While Ukraine and Russia remain at loggerheads over gas supplies and many European states feel the chill as a result, the three Baltic states of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania have been able to watch from the sidelines in relative comfort despite sub-zero temperatures with their own gas supplies unaffected. Despite being former Soviet states like Ukraine, the Baltics receive their gas via different routes, enabling them to avoid the disrupted supplies encountered elsewhere.
Vinsents Makaris, a spokesman for Latvian gas utility Latvijas Gaze told Deutsche Presse-Agentur