A worker does the preparation work for welding the first section of the South Stream pipeline in Anapa, Russia, on Dec. 7, 2012, when Russian energy giant Gazprom was due to launch the construction of the pipeline, which is expected to be delivering up to 63 billion cubic meters of Russian gas to Europe annually, starting in 2015. (Associated Press)
A worker does the preparation work for welding the first section of the South Stream pipeline in Anapa, Russia, on Dec. 7, 2012, when Russian energy giant Gazprom was due to launch the construction of the pipeline, which is expected to be delivering up to 63 billion cubic meters of Russian gas to Europe annually, starting in 2015. (Associated Press)
ASSOCIATED PRESS PHOTOGRAPHS Greenpeace activists chained themselves last week to the Anna Akhmatova, a vessel carrying Gazprom workers in the Pechora Sea. Russia’s state-owned oil company is preparing to drill the first well there, but environmentalists warn about of a lack of technology to deal with a possible spill in the remote Arctic region.
Greenpeace activists chained themselves last week to the Anna Akhmatova, a vessel carrying Gazprom workers in the Pechora Sea. Russia’s state-owned oil company is preparing to drill the first well there, but environmentalists warn about of a lack of technology to deal with a possible spill in the remote Arctic region. (Associated Press)
In a satirical film produced by ARU TV, the Belarusian president Alexander Lukashenko meets the demonic Mr. Gazprom in hell, where the president is looking for cheap gas. The film highlights Lukashenko's dependence on cheap gas from Russia. The internet television ARU TV produces programs for Belarusians, but it avoids state censorship by operating abroad, in Estonia. (ARU TV)
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, left, and Russian gas monopoly Gazprom head, Alexei Miller, meet at the Gorki presidential residence outside Moscow, Monday, June 21, 2010. Mr. Medvedev ordered the state-controlled gas monopoly Monday to cut gas supplies to ex-Soviet neighbor Belarus over its debt for Russian natural gas supplies. On Thursday, June 24, 2010, Russia announced it will resume supply to Belarus. (AP Photo/RIA Novosti, Dmitry Astakhov, Presidential Press service)
