How to live without South Stream

The stopping of the South Stream project, judging by statements of our politicians, was not just the right decision of President Putin, but one might even say a long-awaited decision. Russia, as always in recent years, is on velvet, while Europe - well, you know where. About how we beat the Europeans in the struggle for their own energy security, now have saved tens of billions of dollars, and about how Europe as an entity will now freeze without South Stream, the Fontanka was told by an expert in the oil and gas industry.

As is usually, immediately after the speech of the President, they explained to us that the new decision of the President is a solid gain for Russia and only harm for narrow-minded "European friends".

- If Europe doesn’t want to implement it, so it won’t be realized, - the President said about South Stream on Monday evening, during his visit to Turkey. - We think that it doesn’t correspond to the economic interests of Europe and is detrimental to our cooperation. But such is the choice of our European friends.

"If you don’t want – don’t do it"