Russian President Vladimir Putin is pushing back against Western opposition to his country’s planned South Stream pipeline that would allow Moscow to ship natural gas to European countries without going through Ukraine.
The Russian president spent six hours earlier this week in Vienna where he signed an agreement for the pipeline’s construction in that country.
Putin defended Austrian and Bulgarian cooperation on the pipeline project against political attacks from the West.
Calling for the West to stop pressuring countries along the pipeline route not to cooperate with the Kremlin, Putin said the project is in the interest of Europe and is “not aimed …read more
Source: Voice of America
