GREEKS’ SOUTH-STREAM DEAL HARMS PROSPECTS OF NABUCCO CLAIM RUSSIANS
April 1st, 2008
BY KEITH NUTHALL
GREECE has signed an agreement with Russia over routing the Moscow-Italy coordinated South Stream pipeline project through its territory, with outgoing Russian president Vladimir Putin denying it posed a threat to the rival Nabucco project. Putin told a Kremlin press conference with Greece prime minister Kostas Karamanlis that South Stream would be the "most optimal and competitive" pipeline system serving Europe, and would "help energy security". He said backing South Stream did not mean Russia was "struggling against ...
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