20 May 2021 14:05 GMT Updated 20 May 2021 14:05 GMT in Moscow
Russian authorities have welcomed a decision by the administration of US President Joe Biden to issue waivers against any further sanctions for the eponymous operator of the politically sensitive Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline project in the Baltic Sea and its chief executive, Matthias Warnig.
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Nord Stream 2 has already been hit with sanctions from Washington, which has long threatened further measures, as the US views the Gazprom-led project as a threat to European energy security.
A host of Russian politicians, companies and individual remain under sanctions from the US and elsewhere over the 2014 annexation of the Crimean Peninsula from Ukraine.
19 May 2021 12:07 GMT Updated 19 May 2021 12:07 GMT in Moscow
US President Joe Biden s administration is set to recommend to Congress later this week that waivers be applied to the controversial Nord Stream 2 Russian gas pipeline project in the Baltic Sea, according to reports.
Nord Stream 2 has already been hit with sanctions from Washington, which has long threatened further measures, as the US views the Gazprom-led project as a threat to European energy security.
A host of Russian politicians, companies and individual remain under sanctions from the US and elsewhere over the 2014 annexation of the Crimean Peninsula from Ukraine.
Recent reports from two publications, Politico and Axios, quoting unnamed sources in the US administration, said that waivers from any new sanctions against the pipeline project have been suggested for the project’s operator and its chief executive, German national Matthias Warnig.
6 May 2021 11:01 GMT Updated 6 May 2021 11:01 GMT in Moscow
The US and Germany have failed to get closer in their opposing stances to Russia s controversial Nord Stream 2 gas export pipeline project across the Baltic Sea, despite efforts from US President Joe Biden’s administration to build diplomatic bridges with its European ally.
Following their meeting on the fringe of the G7 Foreign Ministers Summit in London on Tuesday, US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken and German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas reiterated their unchanged views on the pipeline project.
The US continues to strongly oppose the Russian plan to lay a subsea gas pipeline in order to bring gas to Germany, seeing it as undermining European energy security, according to Blinken.
The permit for the construction of Nord Stream 2 in Germany economic zone in the Baltic Sea has been suspended, reports Interfax citing German …
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