Bulgaria backs Russian gas plan
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Bulgaria backs a gas pipeline deal with Russia that is set to strengthen Moscow's grip on energy to Europe.
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BELGRADE, Jan 26 (IPS) - Russia and Serbia signed a "strategic"  energy deal Friday.
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Politics: 13 December 2004, Monday. Bulgaria's President Georgi Parvanov affirmed his support for the proposal of Spain Prime Minister Zapatero of an alliance of civilizations, a high level assembly working to ...
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Bulgaria's Minister of Energy Milko Kovachev said Friday that business circles in his country were trying to thwart a government project to build a second nuclear power plant.
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Business: 16 September 2004, Thursday. Bulgarian government has approved a list of strategic sites from the energy sector that will be supplied with special protection, including extra security and information ...
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Russia's anti-trust body said on  Saturday it had approved the state oil firm Rosneft's purchase  on Thursday of the obscure buyer of the key production unit of  beleaguered YUKOS oil company.
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Business: 19 September 2004, Sunday. Bulgarian energy market will not be the same now after the first direct deal for energy supply was negotiated and signed between the state-owned Kozloduy nuclear plant and ...
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Business: 22 October 2004, Friday. The project for the gasification of Bulgaria's capital city Sofia was launched on Friday.
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Energy deals will take centre stage on the second day Friday of the visit to Bulgaria of Russian President Vladimir Putin amid criticism that while seeking to profit from the contracts, Bulgaria seals its total dependence on Russia for its energy sources.
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Albania, Bulgaria and Macedonia has given the go ahead for the construction of a $1.2bn oil pipeline that will pass through the Balkan peninsula.
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MOSCOW  - President Vladimir Putin backed a government proposal Tuesday to make the state oil company Rosneft a subsidiary of Gazprom - a major step toward giving foreign investors access to the natural gas giant's coveted local shares.
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Bulgarian President Georgi Parvanov said that Bulgaria and Romania&#039;s joining the European Union would strengthen stability in their western Balkan region.
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A plan to give Europe access to a substantial amount of natural gas from a huge new field originally earmarked for the US market is a direct consequence of US policy toward Russia on WTO membership and sanctions on Russian defense exports, newspapers have said.
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MOSCOW  - Russia's natural resources minister said Monday foreign companies would be welcome to help develop offshore oil fields, the same day a senior U.S. diplomat expressed concern about the minister's earlier statement that foreign access to oil and gas deposits would be limited.
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Bulgaria, Albania and Macedonia give their political support for a private trans-Balkan oil pipeline.
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"The agreements signed afford an opportunity for positive quality break-through in our relations"  Bulgarian-Russian relations were developing on all key issues, Russian president Vladimir Putin said at a news conference, during his visit to Sofia. via The Sofia Echo
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MOSCOW Gazprom, the leading Russian gas company, said Tuesday that it would buy one of the country&#39;s largest oil producers, a move that forms a state-controlled energy juggernaut and signals the first step toward ending a ban on foreign ownership of