It was just four years ago that relations between the EU and Russia were seemingly entering a period of irreconcilable differences as the crisis in Ukraine was escalating. There were sanctions, and counter-sanctions. The South Stream pipeline was obstructed in 2014 by the EU, which leaned on its poorest member, Bulgaria in order to obstruct the pipeline from reaching EU shores. There was more and more talk of replacing Russian gas with LNG from the US and elsewhere. To make matters worse for Gazprom (OGZPY) and for Russia, oil prices started plummeting in