> from russia with blood the kremlin chose berezovsky's birthday to fire a humiliating salvo at britain. the russians had discovered an mi6 portal into moscow---a transmitter hidden inside a fake rock that had been planted on a city street. the fsb had known about the rock since the previous year and had been spying on the spies for months, secretly filming them and their top-secret russian sources performing their drops and pickups. russian state tv revealed the find in a crowing newscast, showing images of the rock with it top sawed off to expose the transmitter inside and airing the secret film of the agents and their handlers at work. the covers of four british spies were blown, and a mole they had been running inside russia was arrested. it was unalloyed disaster for mi6, and it came at a particularly delicate time. britain had just handed over the presidency of the g8 to russia, and preparations were under way for the group's first summit to be held in st.petersburg that summer. days before the spy rock scandal broke, the kremlin-owned gas giant gazprom had sent shock waves through european energy markets by shutting down a critical pipeline through ukraine, threatening to cut off the heat in the homes across the continent in the depths of winter. the taps had been turned back on after a four-day standoff over prices, but the crisis was a stark reminder of russia's stranglehold on european energy, and eu leaders were anxious to lock the kremlin into guaranteeing a secure supply of gas and oil at the summit.
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