Turkish Stream : Athens plays gas card

Reports by several press agencies, on 18 April, that Russia is preparing to sign an agreement and pay an advance on receipts for extending the Turkish Stream gas pipeline project to Greece were immediately denied by Moscow. Kremlin spokesman Dmitri Peskov told the radio station Business FM that no agreement on the pipeline, which should deliver Russian gas direct to Turkey by 2019, would be signed on 21 April - as the reports had claimed. He explained that, "of course,…