BBC NEWS: Russia, Turkmenistan and Kazakhstan have signed a landmark deal to build a gas pipeline.
The pipeline will strengthen Moscow's control over Central Asian energy export routes, analysts said. It also deals a blow to European Union hopes of securing alternative routes that would bypass Russia.
The pipeline will skirt the Caspian Sea from Turkmenistan to southern Russia via Kazakhstan and will be built by the end of 2010.
The trilateral agreement was signed in Moscow in the presence of President Vladimir Putin of Russia and President Nursultan Nazarbayev of Kazakhstan.
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