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Friday, 17 May

20:26
Russia will wait until Germany gives the green light
Pumping commercial natural gas supplies via the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline will not start until a German regulator gives the green light, Russia's Foreign Ministry said on Thursday, according to TASS news agency.

09:24
The US and Great Britain threatened Russia with sanctions if Russia blackmails Ukraine with gas
The heads of foreign affairs committees from the parliaments of the United States, Europe and Ukraine made a joint general statement criticizing the Russian gas pipeline Nord Stream 2.

07:18
The US Congress supported sanctions against Nord Stream 2
The Lower House of Congress adopted an amendment that allows the imposition of sanctions against Nord Stream 2, the construction of which is planned to be completed this summer.

09:14
Republicans Threaten to Oppose Treasury Picks Over Nord Stream 2
Senator Pat Toomey and 11 other Republicans on the Senate Banking Committee are threatening to block two Treasury nominees unless the Biden administration reverses its stance on the Nord Stream 2 pipeline from Russia to Germany and imposes new sanctions on the project, Bloomberg reports.

21:35
The date of the completion of the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline has been announced
Construction works under the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline project may be finished already in August, Matthias Warnig, managing director of Nord Stream 2 AG, the project operator, said in an interview with the Handelsblatt newspaper on Sunday.

14:04
Russia made an important statement on gas transit through Ukraine
The Russian Foreign Ministry said that the transit of Russian gas through Ukraine will continue as long as the corresponding contracts are in force.

14:23
The EU may ban the transit of the Russian gas through Belarus
EU High Representative for Foreign Policy and Security Josep Borrel said that European Union will look at hitting Belarus's big potash exports as well as its oil and financial sectors with new sanctions, as punishment for forcing down a Ryanair flight to arrest a journalist.

10:35
Russia announced an important gas contract with Ukraine
Russia's Minister of Energy, Alexander Novak, said that Russia and Ukraine had agreed that mutual claims would be nullified on January 1 and property arrests would be removed according to decisions on court suits, as was reported by RIA Novosti news agency.

12:58
​Ukraine explains how to solve gas dispute with Russia
Ukraine and Russia could implement "mutual offset" of some of their financial claims to each other, which are considered in national and international courts/arbitrages, until the New Year's Eve, and thus sign gas agreements on the transit and supply of Russian gas to Ukraine after January 1, 2020.