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MOSCOW — The president of Belarus, Aleksandr Lukashenko, ordered a halt to the transit of Russian natural gas to Europe on Tuesday, escalating an energy conflict with Moscow over unpaid debts that he said was turning into a “gas war.” The move came after Russia’s state-owned gas giant, Gazprom, said it was doubling the cut in supplies to Belarus to 30 percent of normal volumes Tuesday in an effort to collect about $200 million it says the country owes.
