The new prize from the Kremlin arrived in eastern Siberia. On the plains near the city of Yakutsk, trumpets sounded as President Vladimir Putin signed his name in white ink on a stretch of black pipeline, the symbolic starting point of a $400 billion natural gas link to the Far East.
Russia's War Against Ukraine
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Arkady Rotenberg, a member of Russian President Vladimir Putin's tightening inner circle and a boyhood friend, is about to secure a $4 billion contract to build a bridge to Crimea, which Russia annexed in March, a high-ranking government official said.
