South Stream

The Duran’s Alex Christoforou and Editor-in-Chief Alexander Mercouris discuss the European Commission recommendation that Ukraine returns to direct gas purchases from Russia. In a stunning energy policy reversal, the EC now wants Kiev to buy Russian gas in the amount of around 15 billion cubic meters per year, effectively doing away with the nonsensical ‘reverse gas’ sales hoax the EU was peddling to the Russia for nearly five years.

Authored by Constantin Gurdgiev via True Economics blog:

Confirmation that the EU Commission has dropped its opposition to Nord Stream 2 – the giant gas pipeline Russia is building through the Baltic to supply natural gas directly to Germany – effectively ends whatever doubts previously existed about the project.
More importantly, it also means Russia has won the energy war, which has been raging around the issue of Russian gas supplies to Europe over the last decade and a half.

In our first episode of 2015, Christoph and I look at the most recent attack in the Chechen capital of Grozny.  We focus on who may have been behind the hours-long gun battle that left nearly 30 people dead.  First we consider the support that neo-nazis in the Ukrainian  parliament have been lending to the Chechen militants, both in rhetoric and possibly in material support as well.  We also speak about the recent capture of a high-ranking Chechen terrorist trying to enter into Crimea from Ukraine.  We then move on to the role that Turkey

US neo-cons are also sharpening their spears. As soon as early 2015 there may be a Ukrainian Freedom Act approved by the US Congress. Translation: Ukraine as a “major US non-NATO ally” which means, in practice, a NATO annexation. Next step; more turbo-charged neo-con provocation of Russia.
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politics.hu | November 6, 2014 The United States is putting Hungary under great pressure due to its objections to the Russian-backed South Stream pipeline and the expansion of the Paks nuclear power station, Prime Minister Viktor Orban said in Munich on Thursday evening, after an address delivered at the Hanns Seidel Foundation. At a question […]

RT | November 4, 2014 The Hungarian parliament has approved a law on Monday which allows building the South Stream gas pipeline without approval of the European Union. The European Commission has already demanded an explanation from Hungarian authorities. The European Commission’s spokesperson said at a press briefing in Brussels on Tuesday that the EC […]

RIA Novosti | August 10, 2014 MOSCOW — The current stand-off between Russia and the West over the situation in Ukraine will not affect the scheduled construction of South Stream gas pipeline, the Financial Times reported Sunday quoting the head of the Austrian energy group OMV. “Nobody can tell you not to build a pipeline. […]

RT | June 24, 2014 Russia and Austria have agreed on a joint company to construct the Austrian arm of the $45 billion South Stream gas pipeline project, which is expected to deliver 32 billion cubic meters of Russian gas to the country, bypassing Ukraine. At Tuesday’s meeting in Vienna, the creation of South Stream […]

MEMO | October 22, 2013

The Turkish newspaper, Hurriyet, reported that Turkish Prime Minister, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, will meet Russian President, Vladimir Putin, in Moscow at the end of November, when discussions will focus on the Syrian crisis.