Russia Tightens Energy Grip on Turkey and Southern Europe

Russia completes subsea section of TurkStream pipeline
Gazprom aims to start gas flows to Turkey via the link in 2019

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By Olga Tanas and Dina Khrennikova

November 19, 2018 at 12:00 AM UTC

Updated on

November 19, 2018 at 2:01 PM UTC

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Russia is one step closer to tightening its natural-gas grip on Turkey and southern Europe just as the U.S. aims to curb the expansion of Kremlin-backed energy projects.

President Vladimir Putin and his Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan met in Istanbul on Monday to oversee the completion of the 930-kilometer (580-mile) underwater part of the TurkStream dual pipeline, which is set to transport Russian gas across the Black Sea to Turkey from next year. It may even stretch further, to the southern borders of the European Union.