** FILE ** A Belarusian worker on duty at a gas compressor station of the Yamal-Europe pipeline near Nesvizh, some 130 km (81 miles) southwest of the capital Minsk, Belarus, in this Friday, Dec. 29, 2006 file picture. Gazprom, Russia’s state-controlled gas monopoly, said in a statement Wednesday that it will reduce natural gas supplies to Belarus by 45 percent as of Aug. 3, 2007, after Minsk failed to pay for previous gas shipments. (AP Photo/Sergei Grits, file)