Dmitry Medvedev, Russia`s president, has ordered an 85 per cent cut in gas supplies to Belarus for failing to settle an outstanding gas debt of $192m .About a fifth of Russia`s gas exports to Western Europe go through Belarus. Pictured: Belarussian part of Yamal-Europe Gas Pipeline ; Gas Compressor station `Nesvizhskaya` on the Belarus territory of the Yamal-Europe transit gas pipeline with a total length of approximately 4,000 km which connect Western Europe with rich natural gas deposits on the Yamal peninsula.