Turkey and Russia both looked to have scored significant points over the last week in the jockeying to control new gas routes into Central and South Europe, at the expense of Azerbaijan and Nabucco backers. Moscow won important support from Ankara for the Gazprom-led South Stream pipeline, securing an agreement for starting surveys to lay the line in Turkish territorial waters in the Black Sea, rather than in Ukrainian waters, in order to avoid possible resistance from Kiev. Turkey is expected to officially authorize South Stream's construction by November 2010.
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