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The Gulf crisis between Qatar and some Arab states led by Saudi Arabia would not affect the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries' (OPEC) oil cap agreement, Russian Energy Minister Alexander Novak said on July 10.      

Turkey wants to start construction of its planned second nuclear plant in the Black Sea province of Sinop as soon as possible and has already started working on a planned third nuclear plant, President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said on July 10. 

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin met on July 8 on the sidelines of the G-20 Hamburg Summit in Germany.  

The two leaders discussed bilateral cooperation, the Syrian crisis, the Turkish Stream natural gas pipeline project and Akkuyu nuclear power plant, the Kremlin said in a statement.  

Russia's state-owned nuclear energy conglomerate Rosatom agreed to sell a 49 percent stake in a giant nuclear project in southern Turkey to Turkish investors in a preliminary agreement on June 19 on the sidelines of a nuclear conference in Moscow.

Russia's Rosatom plans to sell a 49 percent stake in the Akkuyu nuclear power plant project to Turkish conglomerate Cengiz-Kolin-Kalyon and will sign a preliminary deal on June 19, the head of Rusatom Energy International said.

Last week, Rosatom won approval from Turkey's energy watchdog to go ahead with building the $20 billion Akkuyu project.

Russia's Rosatom plans to sell a 49 percent stake in the Akkuyu nuclear power plant project to Turkish conglomerate Cengiz-Kolin-Kalyon and will sign a preliminary deal on June 19, the head of Rusatom Energy International said.

Last week, Rosatom won approval from Turkey's energy watchdog to go ahead with building the $20 billion Akkuyu project.

Russia is "ready" to finance in full the expansion of Hungary's only nuclear plant, Russian president Vladimir Putin said on Feb. 2 in Budapest.

The original agreement signed between Hungary and Russia's Rosatom in 2014 involved an 80-percent loan of 10-billion-euro ($11-billion) from Moscow.

Russian energy giant Rosatom will ensure that reactors for the abandoned Belene nuclear power plant (NPP) will be properly stored after being received by Bulgaria, media outlets report.

Russian nuclear group Rosatom would be interested in taking an equity stake in French peer Areva if the French government allows it, a top Rosatom executive said on Dec. 27.

Bulgaria could incorporate the reactors built for the abandoned Belene nuclear power plant (NPP) project into its existing plant, Energy Minister Temenuzhka Petkova has said.

Officials have discussed the prospect with representatives of Russian energy giant Rosatom, whose export arm, Atomstroyexport, made the reactors, Petkova has told private broadcaster bTV in an interview.