The Russian pipe-laying vessel 'Akademik Cherskiy' awaiting duties at Mukran Port.
Photographer: Alex Kraus/BloombergJoe Biden Is Unlikely to Save Angela Merkel’s Pet Project
The EU’s signature $11 billion gas link to Russia is fraying transatlantic alliances.
Angela Merkel’s district on the Baltic coast was the site of the last major Soviet military project in communist East Germany and is now at the center of a deepening rift between Cold War allies.
Once a critical linchpin in the Soviet Union’s power network, the low-lying beachhead near the Polish border has become known as a getaway for Germans, who flock to the island of Ruegen to bike along sandy dunes and dip into its chilly sea.