Around Moscow
Vladimir Putin, who is going to Austria...
first European country to sign a gas supply agreement with the Soviet Union in 1968, and has never filed any complaints since then. The only exception was January 2009, when Ukraine stopped gas supply to Europe in an attempt to prove its transit indispensability.South Stream will bypass Ukraine and hence ensure uninterrupted gas supply to Europe.
Since 1968, Russia has shipped over 160 billion cubic meters of natural gas to Austria. Vladimir Putin, then president of Russia, went to Vienna in 2006 for the signing of strategic agreements on the annual supply of 7 billion cubic meters of Russian gas until 2027. Austria is the only country in Europe to have signed such a long-term gas supply agreement with Russia.
It is now doing its best to adhere to the pan-European policy of energy independence from Russia. It is an ardent advocate of Nabucco, an alternative pipeline to South Stream and Blue Stream designed to deliver gas from Turkmenistan, Azerbaijan and
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