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Merkel raps Putin over energy row
Mrs Merkel was speaking after holding talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin in the Black Sea city of Sochi .
Earlier this month Moscow stopped pumping oil along a pipeline through Belarus in a dispute with Minsk .
Last year gas supplies were stopped for several days in a dispute with another transit country, Ukraine .
Mrs Merkel, whose country holds the six-month EU presidency, did not pull her punches when it came to the vital issue of energy security . . .
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