/ world today news/ Turkey has put Russia in an impasse and the negotiations for increased supplies of Russian natural gas through the new Turkish Stream gas pipeline have stalled, writes expert.ru. The problem is the big discrepancy regarding the price at which Ankara wants to buy the blue fuel – a 15% drop from the current value and the 6% discount given by Moscow so far.
The rejection of South Stream effectively left Russia with no alternative to bypass Ukraine as a country through which supplies to Europe pass, and Turkey is well aware of this and is making the most of it, experts say.
They recall that there was a similar problem between the two countries during the construction of “Blue Stream”, the pipeline that supplies natural gas to Ankara along the bottom of the Black Sea. Then the Turks asked to pay for the supplies with their goods, not with currency, and only the invitation of “Gazprom” to the Italian ENI to become a partner in the project led to the negotiation of payments in currency.
If Turkey succeeds in getting the 15% discount requested, it will increase its supplies of Russian gas and resell it with at least a 10% profit for itself. This is the reason why the negotiations have stalled.
Now everything depends on Moscow’s political decision – if Putin agrees to the concession, the Turks will not only receive money for the passage of supplies to Europe, including Bulgaria after 2019, but will also trade in blue fuel themselves. earning seriously from it.
Russia is currently at a dead end in terms of its supplies to Europe. Moscow has already announced that after the transit contract with Ukraine expires in 2019, they will transfer all of their volume to European countries through Turkey. Now the country faces the dilemma – to let the Ukrainian gas pipelines work or to give the Turks the requested discount of 15%.
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