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Serbia secures gas deal with Russia’s Putin
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MOSCOW, 30 May 2022, (TON): As the war in Ukraine rages, Serbia’s president announced “he has secured an extremely favorable natural gas deal with Russia during a telephone conversation with Russian President Vladimir Putin.”
Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic has refused to explicitly condemn Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and Serbia has not joined Western sanctions against Moscow.
Vucic, a former pro-Russian ultranationalist, claims that he wants to take Serbia into the European Union but has spent recent years cementing ties with Russia, a long-time ally.
Serbia is almost entirely dependent on Russian gas and its main energy companies are under Russian majority ownership.
Vucic told reporters “what I can tell you is that we have agreed on the main elements that are very favorable for Serbia.”
“We agreed to sign a three-year contract, which is the first element of the contract that suits the Serbian side very well.”
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