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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Shaun Walker in Warsaw and Deborah Cole in Berlin

The Nord Stream riddle: echoes of mistrust ripple through Europe

A sign directing traffic towards the Nord Stream 2 gas line landfall facility in Germany.
The Nord Stream pipelines became a flashpoint in Europe’s shifting relationship with Moscow after the invasion of Ukraine. Photograph: Odd Andersen/AFP/Getty Images

Chunky steel pipes run through one of the exhibition rooms at Warsaw’s Museum of Contemporary Art, part of an installation that purports to show “how gas flows, propaganda and conspiracy theories intertwine”.

The exhibit is an artistic nod to Nord Stream 2, the undersea gas pipeline between Russia and Germany, which was completed in 2021 but had not entered service when mysterious underwater explosions took it out of action in September 2022.

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