
Slavenko Terzic: “We hope Russia won’t leave Serbia without gas”
Ambassador of Serbia speaks about prospects of relations between Moscow and Belgrade
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Ambassador of Serbia speaks about prospects of relations between Moscow and Belgrade
Western media on key geopolitical events over Russia and Iran
The Russian Energy Ministry expects that an intergovernmental deal on the Turkish Stream gas pipeline will be signed after a new government is formed in Turkey, Russian Energy Minister Alexander Novak said. Russia …
Gunnar Walter has become the new financial director of the Trans-Adriatic Pipeline project (TAP), which envisages transportation of Azerbaijani gas to Europe. In January of last year he was appointed to TAP as a senior …
Media report information about the government's directive to the state officials on the board of directors of Transneft about the need to vote in favor of the candidacy of the head of the Ministry of Energy, Alexander Novak, in the elections for the new
Europe's dependence on Russian gas supplies won’t decrease, and will even increase,’’ said Russian Energy Minister Alexander Novak in an interview for Rossiyskaya Gazeta. …
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Gazprom CEO Alexey Miller said that both lines of Nord Stream-2 gas pipeline will be commissioned by 2019 year-end.
Russia and the European Commission in the near future will address the issue of gas supplies to Europe from the hub on the Turkish-Greek border, the head of the Ministry of Energy of Russia Alexander Novak said. "The development of the gas transportation system in the south-east of the hub on the border between Turkey and Greece will be the subject of our discussion in the near future," TASS reports with reference to the TV channel Russia 24.
Interview by Orkhan Sattarov, the head of the European Bureau of Vestnik Kavkaza Bakhruz Abdolvand, a coordinator of the Berlin Center for Caspian Region Studies, an associated member of the German Society for Foreign Policy, described the prospects of Iranian gas on the European energy market after Iran’s possible return to the international arena from isolation and about the impact of the Ukrainian crisis on Iranian-Russian relations.
Russian Energy Minister Alexander Novak and European Commissioner for Energy Günther Oettinger are going to meet in Moscow on August 29 in order to discuss Russia's gas exports to the EU, the Russian ministry of energy says in a statement.
Interview by Orhan Sattarov, the head of the European bureau of "Vestnik Kavkaza"
Stroytransgaz quits project to prevent failure
Konstantin Simonov: “It will be easier to agree with the new heads of cabinets in the European Commission”
The gas issue is very politicized
Gazprom Deputy Head Alexander Medvedev said that the company could build the South Stream at its own cost. He reminded that similar mechanisms had been used for realization of the Nord Stream and the Sakhalin-2 projects, Interfax reports
European Commissioner for Energy Gunther Oettinger believes decisions regarding gas pipelines bypassing Ukraine, i.e. Nord Stream and South Stream, are secondary compared to the need to secure transportation of Russian gas across Ukraine, the Kyiv Post reports on Sunday.
Russia might have to look for an alternative route for the South Stream gas pipeline if problems on the European Union's part with respect to the project continue, Russian President Vladimir Putin is quoted as saying by the Voice of Russia.
Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev said that launch of the South Stream gas pipeline will make Europe independent from Ukrainian gas transit, Bloomberg reports.He reminded that the Nord Stream was a guarantee that Europe will be supplied with gas.