Croatian Prime Minister Jadranka Kosor and her Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin have agreed that the South Stream natural-gas pipeline will traverse Croatia.
South Stream, primarily a Russian project worth some 19 billion Euros, will transport Russian natural-gas through the Black Sea to Bulgaria and on to Italy and Austria.
The project will partly replace the planned extension of Blue Stream from Turkey through Bulgaria and Serbia to Hungary and Austria and is seen as a rival of the planned Nabucco natural-gas pipeline. South Stream is sched… [ read more ]