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On 1 December 2007, during a visit to [[Turkey]], Putin said the SouthStream project would not proceed and 63 billion cubic metres per year (bcm/y) of gas would be shipped to [[Turkey]] instead of [[Bulgaria]]. Bulgaria was being sued by the [[European Union]] for signing a contract with Russia, which was not aligned with European Union regulations. The president of Bulgaria, [[Rosen Plevneliev]], pressured the European Union and Russia to quickly resolve the matter.<ref>{{Cite web |date=1 December 2014 |title=Russia confirms decision to abandon South Stream |url=http://www.euractiv.com/sections/energy/russia-confirms-decision-abandon-south-stream-final-310712 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150909140140/http://www.euractiv.com/sections/energy/russia-confirms-decision-abandon-south-stream-final-310712 |archive-date=9 September 2015 |access-date=28 August 2015 |publisher=EurActiv}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Видео споделяне / VBOX7 |url=http://www.vbox7.com/play:989764b947 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151018063900/http://www.vbox7.com/play:989764b947 |archive-date=18 October 2015 |access-date=28 August 2015 |publisher=Vbox7.com}}</ref>
On 18 December 2007, [[Frank-Walter Steinmeier]] (who was then Foreign Minister of Germany) and [[Dmitry Medvedev]] signed an agreement on behalf of [[BASF]] to exploit another gas field. At the time, German demand was 40% covered by Russian supply. Some German academics warned that Germany had become too dependent of Russia but Steinmeier, citing the new [[
On 11 February 2008 Kuprianov threatened Ukraine with a stoppage of flow; in January 2009 the threat was executed and on the coldest day of the year, Ukraine, Romania and Austria froze: the [[2009 Russia–Ukraine gas dispute]] had begun. BASF's [[Jürgen Hambrecht]] was concerned about the reliability of his firm's supply but Miller assuaged his worries in a phone call, and the Europeans did nothing to change course for more than a decade.<ref name=dwdgp/>
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