Turkey and Russia signed an intergovernmental agreement for the Turkish Stream natural gas pipeline project in Istanbul on Monday. Energy Minister Berat Albayrak and his Russian counterpart Alexander Novak signed the agreement following a meeting between President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Russia’s President Vladimir Putin, which continued for 140 minutes …

All good on the Eastern Front. Greece and Russia signed a memorandum of cooperation on the Turkish Stream gas pipeline, Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras is going to meet President Vladimir Putin in the afternoon. The Greek delegation officially attends the Saint Petersburg International Economic Forum. Friday morning, Russia and Greece …

Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras and Russian President Vladimir Putin had a telephone conservation Friday noon. The two leader reportedly talked about the Greek participation in the BRICS Development Bank and the Turkish Stream, a joint natural gas pipeline between Russia and Turkey. According to Greek government sources and Russian …

Greece plans to invest $2 billion in the construction of Gazprom’s Turkish Stream natural gas project. A memorandum on the political support of the project is reportedly to be signed late June during the International Economic Forum. “A memorandum on political support for the gas pipeline project will be prepared …

The European Parliament penalized Greek MEP and former member of the far-right Golden Dawn party, Giannis Lagos for tearing up a paper copy of the Turkish flag during a debate in the EP last month. For using insulting language and tearing apart a national symbol, Lagos will lose seven days …

The US State Department expressed its strong opposition to the Turkish-Russian TurkStream gas pipeline saying that together with the Nord Stream 2 they undermine the European energy security and serves only the Russian interests. “The United States continue to oppose the Nord Stream 2 and the second line of TurkStream,” …

A crew of Turkish state TRT broadcaster was briefly detained in the city of Alexandroupolis, Northern Greece, late Saturday. A cameraman, a reporter and a transportation officer were detained and held in a police station for three hours before they were released. The group had some test shootings in the …

The website of Greece’s Athens News Agency was hacked at 11 o’ clock Monday night. An uploaded message  in Turkish and English has the content on the home page of the Greek state news agency disappear. The message had a clear reference to the eight Turkish soldiers who fled to …

Hardly has Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan set foot in Athens and first visit of a Turkish president after 65 years turned into what diplomats would describe as “a disaster.”  Right after the official welcome ceremony, Greek President Prokopis Pavlopoulos rejected all Turkish claims one by one and thus in …

Russian ambassador Andrey Karlov was shot in Turkish capital Ankara short after 6 o’ clock Monday afternoon. He was delivering a speech at an exhibition “Russia through Turkish eyes”, when a man started to fire wildly. Ambassador Karlov was seriously wounded. He was first treated on the spot, it is …

For the first time after 81 years, the Turkish government allowed Koran recitations inside the ultimate symbol of Orthodox Christianity, the Hafia Sophia in Istanbul.  All thought the month of Ramazan form 6th June to July 7th, state Television & Radio corporation (TRT) will broadcast a live program with prayers …

Russia is keen to supply energy to Greece and is ready to expand cooperation in the gas sector with the country, Executive Director of the Skolkovo Energy Center Vyacheslav Mischenko told reporters at an energy conference in Athens. He emphasized that “Russia is ready to expand cooperation with Greece in …

Russia and Turkey plan to launch the first reactor at Turkey’s Akkuyu nuclear power plant in 2023, Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Monday. Speaking alongside Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan, Putin said the Russian state nuclear agency Rosatom would begin work at the Akkuyu site in the near future. Putin …

Panagiotis Lafazanis, energy minister in the first SYRIZA government, claimed he had agreed with Moscow in 2015 that Russia would make a down-payment for a gas pipeline so that the money could be used to finance rexit if the country would decide to leave the euro zone. Lafazanis told Vima …

Russia’s Gazprom is ready to consider the Trans-Adriatic Pipeline (TAP), designed to transport natural gas from Azerbaijan to the EU countries, as an option for gas supplies to Europe, Kommersant newspaper reported referring to its sources. Gazprom is now leaning towards the Poseidon gas pipeline as the main option for …

Alexei Miller, Deputy Chairman of the Board of Directors and Chairman of the Management Committee of Russian energy company Gazprom will be in Athens tomorrow, Tuesday to talks with Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras and Energy Minister  Panagiotis Lafazanis. Miller, Tsipras and Lafazanis will discuss “current energy issues of interest,” Greek …

After the news made the rounds, Russia denied media reports that it is going to give Greece a loan of up to €5 billion as advance payment for future transit profits from a future gas pipeline. Russian President’s spokesman Dmitry Peskov said no such loan was planned. “[Russian President Vladimir] …

Greeks discovered the magic pipeline that is supposed to pour hot money in the kids’ beach buckets. In thus, in advance. Russia will allegedly pay to Greece full €5 billion once the signatures will dry on the agreement paper. The amount is said to be “future” profit for Greece arising …

“This meeting is very important for the Greek-Russian relations, it is the begin of a new spring,” Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras said during the joint press conference with Russian president Valdimir Putin. In fact, Tsipras mentioned the word “spring” three times during his joint appearance with Putin. Both leaders assured …

That was a good one! While Greek Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis was holding a meeting and a press conference with his German counterpart Wolfgang Schaeuble, Vladimir Putin moved to play a prank with Berlin. He called Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras and invited him to Moscow. State NERIT Tv reported …