MOSCOW, Russia (AFP) — Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday launched the deep-water phase of the TurkStream gas pipeline project, calling Turkey’s Recep Tayyip Erdogan from a ship off the Black Sea coast. TurkStream will deliver Russian gas to Turkey and is eventually intended to serve the European Union. “Go!” Putin said, pressing a button on the Pioneering Spirit pipelaying ship, the world’s largest construction vessel, to formally launch the work, accompanied by Gazprom energy […]