Alexei Miller, the chairman of the Russian energy giant Gazprom, met with South Ossetian leader Eduard Kokoity in Moscow on February 10 to discuss the construction of a new gas pipeline linking the breakaway region with Russia’s North Ossetia.
Gazprom said in a statement posted on its website that the construction of the Dzuarikau-Tskhinvali gas pipeline will end in the third quarter of 2009.
Presently the Tskhinvali region is supplied with gas through the Agara-Tskhinvali gas pipeline, controlled by the Georgian side.
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