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BELGRADE - Serbian PM Ana Brnabic confirmed on Monday that construction of the Serbian Stream - a gas pipeline from Bulgaria to Serbia that will replace the South Stream - would begin soon.

She said the South Stream company, established for the project to build the gas pipeline of the same name, would be renamed accordingly.

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The Serbian prime minister said the South Stream company, established for the project to build the gas pipeline of the same name, would be renamed accordingly.

"Currently we are designing Nis-Dimitrovgrad (pipeline) and I believe we will begin to build it, too, soon," the Brnabic said on Monday in Belgrade.

The construction of the reception terminal for the Turkish Stream gas pipeline starts on the Black Sea coast of Turkey.

''I  am waiting for a letter from the European Commission on whether they will allow me or not to start negotiations for a direct pipeline from Turkish Stream to Bulgaria'', Prime Minister Boyko Borisov said at the annual meeting of Bulgarian ambassadors, quoted by BGNES.

Gazprom has signed "road maps" with Bulgaria, Serbia and Hungary to develop a pipeline for deliveries of gas from a future second leg of the Turkish Stream.

This in effect revives the abandoned South Stream pipeline - but this time with a quarter less capacity, Beta is reporting, citing the Moscow-based daily Kommersant.

Hungary and "Gazprom" signed an agreement for gas deliveries in Europe through the Turskish stream. The first deliveries of the ''blue fuel'' should pass through the new pipe positioned on the seabed of Black sea and arrive in the end of 2019. This was announced by the Hungarian foreign minister Peter Szijjarto during the signing of the agreement in Moscow.

Austrian energy group OMV and Russia's Gazprom are considering reviving a gas pipeline project through the Black Sea connecting Russia to central and southern Europe, an Austrian newspaper said on June 13.

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Russia, Hungary and Serbia have returned to the negotiating table on the issue of building the South Stream gas pipeline, Hungarian Foreign and Trade Minister Peter Szijjarto said Friday.

At the end of last week Russia's energy giant Gazprom started the actual construction of the Turkish Steam gas pipeline after Russian President Vladimir Putin gave green light to that project, quoted by BNR.