Russia: Attempts to make South Stream governable by Third Energy Package unlawful

Interfax Ukraine: 12. May 2014
Russia: Attempts to make South Stream governable by Third Energy Package unlawful

A worker checks wires in front a gas pipe line section before a ceremony to launch the construction of South Stream gas pipeline outside the Black Sea resort town of Anapa, on December 7, 2012.

Brussels - The Russian permanent envoy to the European Union has argued that attempts to put restrictions on the operator of the planned South Stream natural gas pipeline that are prescribed by the EU Third Energy Package Rules are unlawful.

Interfax Ukraine: 12. May 2014

Russia analyzing how to avoid Ukrainian gas storage facilities in shipping gas to Europe

Moscow - Russia is analyzing how to avoid Ukrainian underground gas storage facilities in shipping gas to Europe, Russian Deputy Energy Minister Anatoly Yanovsky told journalists.