Iraqi Kurdish ambitions could benefit Russia vs Turkey
Russia is bidding for dominance in helping Iraqi Kurdistan monetise its energy reserves and in gas transit to Europe
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- Cooling KRG-Turkish relations
- Questions over Genel Energy
- Russian moves
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_350.jpg "Russia's President Vladimir Putin, right, meets with and Iraq's Kurdistan Prime Minister Nechirvan Barzani, left, at the St Petersburg International Economic Forum, Russia, June 2017 (Reuters/Sputnik/Alexei Druzhinin)")