Yes, Russia already has some monopoly powers, and its position is like to strengthen further. Analysis by Veritas Global shows that Russia is likely to already have monopoly power across several EU markets. For 11 of the 27 EU members, Russian natural gas consisted of over 60% of all imports. For 7 of the 27 EU members, Russian natural gas was over 90% of all imports.

It’s been ten years since NASA launched the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) and the device has now completed nearly 45,000 trips around the red planet and taken more than 200,000 images of it and other objects in the vicinity.  The working life of the intrepid craft was expected to end seven