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Kostas Karamanlis / Vladimir Putin news conference

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Published 29 April, 2008, 13:44

President Putin has signed a deal with Greece on construction of the country's section of the South Stream pipeline – connecting Russian to Europe. South Stream is a joint project with Eni to construct of a gas pipeline under the Black Sea.

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