: :inin Kyiv (EET)

Russia strikes pipeline deals to skirt Ukraine


The cash-strapped and increasingly friendless Greek government on Friday signed a preliminary agreement with Russia on a €2 billion project that would build a pipeline through Greece to link up with the controversial Moscow-backed Turkish Stream scheme.
Russia wants to build Turkish Stream, carrying 63 billion cubic meters a year of gas, across the Black Sea to Turkey. The pipeline is supposed to be completed by the end of 2016.
The Greek leg would carry 47bcm, and the pipeline would be jointly owned by the two countries, Russian Energy Ministry spokeswoman Olga Golant told Agence France-Presse.
The announcement was made in St. Petersburg …read more

Source: European Voice

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