Russia wins economic battle with USA launching Blue Stream natural gas pro

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http://english.pravda.ru/main/18/89/357/16490_bluestream.html

US officials were trying to defame Blue Stream saying that Russian specialists would never be able to handle it

The gas pipeline known as Blue Stream, an ambitious, highly expensive and complicated project, which created a direct gas link between Russia and Turkey avoiding the territory of other states, was officially opened yesterday. President Putin, Italian Prime Minister Berlusconi and the head of the Turkish government, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, gathered for the official meeting in the town of Samsun, Turkey, to celebrate the launching of the grand project.

Blue Stream has marked a new era in the construction of pipelines to transport the Russian natural gas directly to foreign consumers. Russia has recently started the construction of another pipeline, which will let Russia deliver its gas to Europe avoiding the territory of the three Baltic States. The pipeline will deliver gas to Great Britain too - the market, which Russia could not access before.

The implementation of the Blue Stream project started on December 15, 1997 when the governments of Russia and Turkey signed an adequate agreement. One may say that Blue Stream has been functioning since 2003, albeit at reduced capacity. The pipeline will deliver 4.5 billion cubic meters of natural gas by the end of the current year; the transportation capacity will be increased to 16 billion cubic meters a year in the future. Blue Stream's length totals 1,213 kilometers - 400 kilometers of pipes have been laid on the Black Sea floor, which made the project become the world's deepest undersea pipeline.

Blue Stream is abundant with innovative technological solutions. However, the project was predicted to fade during the first stage of its implementation, for it touched upon too many interests during construction.

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This is probably why Condi was up there in Central asia... and looks like our troops will be guarding pipelines!!!

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1. Wrong translation

<Russia wins economic battle with USA>

In the original, that's just "against the US will"

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3. Wouldn't "in spite of" fit a bit better? n/t

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2. Turkey and Russia celebrate gas link

The blossoming relations between Turkey and Russia went on display yesterday, as resentment grows among Turkish nationalists at the mounting influence of America and the European Union on their country.

President Vladimir Putin joined the Turkish prime minister, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, in the Black Sea Port of Samsun to inaugurate the world's deepest undersea pipeline, which carries Russian gas to northern Turkey.

Washington opposes the pipeline, known as Blue Stream, seeing it as a sign of excessive Russian influence in Nato-member Turkey.

The Turkish prime minister described the launch of the pipeline as an "historic moment" in Turkey's relations with Russia and Italy, which helped construct it. "I hope this pipeline will not only carry gas, but peace, love and friendship," he said.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2005/11/18/wgas18.xml&sSheet=/news/2005/11/18/ixworld.html