The US military budget includes sanctions against gas pipelines of the Russian Federation

The US Senate included in the draft military budget for 2020 sanctions against participants in the construction of the Northern Stream - 2 and Turkish Stream gas pipelines. The document is posted on the website of the committee on armed affairs of the upper house of the American parliament. Restrictions against builders will allow maintaining the energy security of Europe, the authors of the document are sure. The US military budget is required to accept.

Specific restrictions are not indicated in the document. Earlier it was reported that sanctions against the Northern Stream - 2 include restrictions on foreign companies that provide their vessels for laying pipes along the bottom of the Baltic Sea. In the case of the Turkish stream, we can talk about builders of the land, since the underwater threads of the project are already completed.

Gas pipelines "Northern Stream - 2" and "Turkish Stream" should be launched in 2020. With the help of projects, Russia is trying to reduce the dependence of its export of energy on transit through Ukraine.

In Brussels, it is believed that the Nord Stream 2 enhances the dependence of the European Union on the supply of Russian gas, threatens its domestic market and violates the provisions of the EU energy policy.

• In addition to sanctions against gas pipelines, the budget has been on the ban on the US government to recognize Crimea part of the territory of Russia.
• The initial draft document contained a clause on sanctions against Russian state debt. However, he did not enter the final version of the document.
• If the builders of gas pipelines withstand the declared deadlines, sanctions against them will be imposed after the completion of the input of the facilities. This will make them ineffective.