Putin to discuss the "South Stream" with the Austrian leader.

The Russian President, Vladimir Putin will visit Vienna on a one-day working visit, during which he will hold talks with the leader of Austria, as well as meet with Didier Burkhalter, the chairman of the OSCE, the President of Switzerland. The main topics of talks are expected to be the situation in Ukraine and the fate of the "South Stream" pipeline.

Both the officials and the experts state that the central topic of the visit will be energy. A bilateral agreement of the SouthStream Austria joint project company shareholders to establish a project company for the construction of the Austrian section of "South Stream" is planned to be signed during the visit. On the Russian side Alexey Miller, the head of "Gazprom", will sign the document and on the Austrian - Gerhard Reuss, CEO oil and gas company OMV.