Six members of the National Guard have been shot and killed; other citizens have been murdered while attempting to remove obstacles placed by protesters to block transit.
Iran also laid significant numbers of mines in an attempt to block transit, prompting mine-clearing operations and attacks on the Iranian Navy by American warships.
But more than 50 protesters rallied and prevented officers from taking down barricades in the vital Mong Kok district, and others blocked transit workers from removing debris blocking tram rails on one downtown street.
With Sicily just 60 miles to the north, control of Malta would have given Italy complete control of the central Mediterranean and put Italy's armed forces in a strong position to block transit between the western and eastern basins of the Mediterranean.
Russia's Gazprom state-controlled gas monopoly resumed shipments to Europe via Ukraine today, but then accused Ukraine of blocking the transit of gas.
Any serious disruption in maritime trade would have grave consequences for many countries, whether exporters, like China, or importers, seeing how vulnerable energy supplies and just-in-time trade and industry are to any blocking of transit traffic [49].
Vpu interacts with human tetherin in infected cells, blocking its transit to viral assembly sites on the PM (Dubé et al., 2011; Kueck and Neil, 2012; Schmidt et al., 2011) and promoting its endosomal degradation (Agromayor et al., 2012; Janvier et al., 2011).
Alexander Medvedev, deputy chief executive of Gazprom, declared that Ukraine had blocked the transit pipeline and "is responsible for everything that has happened".
Gov. George E. Pataki vetoed a bill yesterday that would have blocked New York City transit officials from closing 62 subway MetroCard booths over the next year while an advisory panel studied safety threats to the city's subways and buses.
This week Ukraine cut off sales of the many components it produces for Russia's defence industry, and has previously threatened to block the transit of Russian natural gas through its territory, a flow that accounts for 15% of Europe's supply.
