The price of natural gas is higher in European countries where the share of Russian import is high. Most likely this is not because of import dependency, but Russian dependency. While many countries import gas into their country, which is a healthy trade helping both the countries involved in the process, one of the main problems of this is the leaky pipelines which although can be detected by using a Portable Gas Detectors, but resolving this issue will again cost the country a ton of money. If Eastern European countries want to buy cheap gas, they need to connect to the Western-European gas market: there Russian gas has to compete with other sources, leading to much lower prices. […]