MOSCOW, July 13 (RIA Novosti) - Bulgaria...

The South Stream project, designed to annually pump 31 billion cubic meters of Central Asian and Russian gas to the Balkans and on to other European countries, involves Bulgaria, Serbia, Hungary, Italy and Greece. The pipeline"s capacity could be eventually increased to 63 billion cubic meters annually.

Russia"s state nuclear power equipment and service export monopoly Atomstroyexport won a tender to build and deliver essential equipment for a nuclear power plant in Belene, Bulgaria, in 2005, the paper said.

In early 2008, Atomstroyexport signed a contract worth around 4 billion euros ($5.8 billion) for the NPP construction.