UPDATE: Pres aide: Russia may build gas pipe to Greece via Bulgaria

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MOSCOW, May 26 (PRIME) -- Russia is considering a new gas pipeline project to Greece, the transit can be made across Bulgaria, presidential aide Yury Ushakov told reporters on Thursday.

“We are now working on a project of gas supplies from Russia to Greece and Italy via third countries. I mean, the pipeline could run across the bottom of the Black Sea and then across the territory of one of the coastal countries, this is evidently Bulgaria,” Ushakov said.

In February, Russian gas giant Gazprom signed a memorandum with Italy’s Edison and Greece’s DEPA on gas supplies from Russia to the E.U. under the Black Sea via third countries.

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