Russia has no interest in financing NATO expansion. And has no reason to subsidize anyone that is not a friend or not willing to do fair commerce. 

In addition, these Baltic states insist on subsidized gas, these Baltic states claim to embrace market pricing but squawk when they get bills based on market prices.  Like the problem in Ukraine, the Baltic states need to be turned off until their productivity goes back up and they can pay a fair price for their consumption.
This is why the pipeline will be built bypassing Poland and why other problems such as Ukraine will either pay market price or go black.
These countries that want to join NATO, let them, because America will not be able to print enough dollars fast enough, erase M3 reporting, or institute more failed NGO activities in CIS nation to somehow continue economic subsidies on Western advanced economies. I say advanced but in reality it's advanced consumption...
Quite possibly after Iran starts her own oil bourse in March of 2006, this coupled with the FED's new secrecy, both the Euro and the Dollar may crash very hard, thus requiring pipe lines like this to keep flies like Poland from holding Russia hostage and thus keeping real productive economies such as Germany from receiving her energy.
Bypassing Poland is a great idea, Russia will make gas and oil for Germany, while Germany manufactures Mercedes and Porches for Russia's poor (that was sarcasm, but only slightly).