SOFIA, Bulgaria - Barely two weeks after President Vladimir Putin annexed Crimea on one side of the Black Sea, he won a different prize on the other side. In Bulgaria's Parliament, lawmakers gave initial passage to a bill clearing the way for a mammoth gas pipeline from Russia.
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President Vladimir Putin used Aleksei Miller, Gazprom's leader, left, to press Bulgaria for a pipeline
