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Tuesday, November 13, 2012

Gazprom secures Slovenian leg in pipeline project

Russian Premier Dmitry Medvedev, left, speaks with visiting Slovenian counterpart Janez Jansa before signing documents on the South Stream pipeline construction at the Gorki residence outside Moscow on Tuesday, Nov. 13, 2012. The South Stream pipeline, due to start operating in 2015, would ship up to 63 billion cubic meters of gas annually from Russia under the Black Sea to Bulgaria, Serbia, Hungary, Slovenia, Austria and Italy in one leg, and Croatia and Greece in a second. (AP Photo/RIA Novosti, Yekaterina Shtukina, Government Press service)Russian gas giant Gazprom took a step closer on Tuesday in its plan to lay a major pipeline network across Europe after it struck a deal with Slovenia, one of the countries the pipe passes through.



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