Vestnik Kavkaza: Serbia pins hopes on Turkish Stream

Serbia hopes to get Russian gas if the gas pipeline connecting Russia with Turkey via the Black Sea is built, the vice president of the Democratic Party of Serbia, Milan Lapčević said.

The Turkish Stream project is being regarded as an alternative to South Stream. The plans for the construction of the latter were abandoned by Russia in December 2014. Lapčević said that Belgrade set high hopes on the South Stream which responded to the economic, political and geo-strategic interests of Serbia. "So that South Stream would be implemented, we began the process of expropriation of land and already started the process of construction. And for us, the news of the project stopping was very sudden, and it was a big disappointment," he said.

According to Lapčević, "this example shows that pressure from America and European countries is being directed towards Russia. It is really a desire for Russia to be completely jammed in their framework, so that it stops developing economically, even if it hurts European businesses, the European economy, even if it goes against the interests of buying gas from South Stream. And this pressure on Russia will continue, no doubt."

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