Bulgaria acknowledged its mistake in refusing to participate in the implementation of the South Stream gas pipeline project,. This was stated by the country's Prime Minister Boyko Borisov during today's briefing following the talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin. The Bulgarian thanked Moscow for "not holding evil" on Sofia for the failure of the "South Stream", noting that "the elder always forgives". The Russian leader replied: "I am confused by the conversations - who is the elder, who is the youngest, I mean that the elder are always encouraged to pay". Meanwhile, the Russian leader said that Moscow is ready to cooperate with Sofia in terms of large-scale energy projects, but with the guarantees of their implementation by Bulgaria or the European Union, since "no one wants to repeat some kind of disruption". According to Putin, Russia needs "primarily financial guarantees that would be expressed either in sovereign guarantees of the Bulgarian government or in the relevant decisions of the European Commission," RIA Novosti writes.. The failure with the "South Stream" was too expensive for the Russian "Gazprom" - the total losses of the concern amounted to about 800 million euros. "We regret. I understand and I see it - the Bulgarian side regrets about the breakdown of the South Stream project, because, no one doubts that its implementation would be very beneficial to Bulgaria, "Putin said.. He added that now the Russian Federation and Turkey are working out a plan for the extension of the Turkish Stream gas pipeline to Bulgaria. The President stressed that the issue of the volume of the transit of blue fuel through the Bulgarian territory should be linked to the volumes of supplies along other corridors. The head of state and the troubled Nezalezhny, who almost every day whines about Nord Stream-2, calling it the Kremlin's "hybrid weapon" against Ukraine and the whole of Europe as a whole, did not bypass the "Trojan horse". Recall that Putin has repeatedly stated that the Russian Federation plans to maintain the pumping of Russian blue fuel through the Ukrainian GTS, but on favorable terms for Gazprom.

"How much will it be delivered (" SP-2 ") - the question is, how much will we keep the transit through Ukraine (and we are ready to preserve the Ukrainian transit) is also a question. How much will our customers now and on the nearest prospects, "- quotes his RT.

As for the Bulgarians, their lament for the Russian pipe was first heard from the mouth of the country's president, Rumen Radev, in an interview with Kommersant on May 21. Then he said that he was in favor of building a new gas pipeline that would connect Russia and Bulgaria through the Black Sea. Radev suggested that he be called the "Bulgarian Stream".