Fuel and energy

According to a member of the State Duma Committee on International Affairs Sergei Zheleznyak, US parliamentarians are promoting the interests of American fuel corporations as opposed to the Nord Stream 2 project.

A large majority (75%) of German citizens reject US sanctions against the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline.

Oil and gas condensate production in Russia decreased in January-May by 6.3% in annual terms to 212.22 million tons, according to CDU TEK.

The planned production of uranium ended in 1990 in Germany, but continued further development and curtailment of production.

This will happen on the eve of Joe Biden's visit to Europe.

This initiative was made by the candidate for Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany from the «greens».

Moscow and Islamabad have agreed to build the Pakistani Stream gas pipeline, as the Russian Energy Ministry said.

According to Russian Deputy Prime Minister, Russian gas supplied to Europe via the Nord Stream gas pipeline is four times more environmentally friendly than gas supplied to Europe from the United States.

Russian Foreign Ministry spokesman Maria Zakharova commented on London's call to impose sanctions against Nord Stream 2 and Yamal-Europe due to Moscow's alleged involvement in the Ryanair incident.

Press Secretary of the Russian President Dmitry Peskov commented on the words of US President Joe Biden that sanctions against Nord Stream 2 are counterproductive at this stage.

Former Ukrainian Foreign Minister Pavel Klimkin called the US decision not to impose sanctions against Nord Stream 2 AG, which doubles gas supplies from Russia to Germany and the EU through the Baltic Sea, bypassing Ukraine, as a blow in the stomach.

The Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine called on the House of Representatives and the Senate of the US Congress to use all legal tools to irreversibly stop the construction of the gas pipeline within the framework of the Nord Stream 2 project.

A member of the German Bundestag Defense Committee, Alexander Noy, told RIA Novosti that the United States recognized the impossibility of stopping the construction of Nord Stream 2.

Two new fields were commissioned at the Urengoyskoye oil and gas condensate field in January and April 2021.

According to the newspaper Politico, the US State Department intends to add four more vessels participating in the construction of Nord Stream 2 to the sanctions list.