Turkmen natural gas supplies to Russia resumed | Top Russian news and analysis online | ‘RIA Novosti’ newswire: “Turkmenistan resumed on Saturday natural gas supplies to Russia under a deal the parties signed in December to end a months-long dispute, a spokesman for Russian gas monopoly Gazprom said.
The ex-Soviet nation had been exporting some 50 billion cubic meters of natural gas annually to Gazprom until an explosion at a Turkmen pipeline leg in April 2009. Ashgabat accused Gazprom of failing to warn that it was reducing gas imports, resulting in a buildup of pipeline pressure that caused the blast.”