The authorities of the Balkan region remembered Russian gas

The ruling party of Republika Srpska, a region within Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH), will again raise the issue of building a gas pipeline to receive Russian gas after winning the elections. This was stated by the head of the Union of Independent Social Democrats (SNSD), Milorad Dodik, RIA Novosti reports.

The very idea of ​​the project is already more than ten years old, but all these years the country’s leadership has been blocking its start. According to Dodik, if the Bosniak side (as the Muslim politicians in power are called) has good will for construction, then the Republika Srpska is “ready to work on it.”

The head of the SNSD did not specify whether he considers it realistic to change the positions of his opponents and overcome political differences over the gas pipeline.

BiH currently receives about 250 million cubic meters of Russian gas per year through a connection in the town of Zvornik on the border with Serbia. Of these, 50 million cubic meters go to the Republika Srpska, with a population of just over a million people. The new gas pipeline will allow the region to receive gas without intermediaries.