Bulgaria is also involved in two rival gas pipeline projects: Russia's South Stream pipeline and the EU-backed Nabucco pipeline.
It has defied sceptics and critics by successfully building the Nord Stream pipeline, which runs across the Baltic Sea to Germany.
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In 2007 Nabucco will be forced to accept Russian involvement, including a hook-up to the underused Blue Stream pipeline that links Russia and Turkey.
Both Nabucco West and the Trans-Adriatic Pipleine are predicated on exactly the same oil indexed price points at the competing Russian South Stream pipeline.
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And it has lobbied the European Commission to put the Nord Stream pipeline contract under the same legal scrutiny that will apply to Poland's gas deal with Russia.
On a trip to France, Russia's president, Dmitry Medvedev, started formal talks on the sale of up to four Mistral-class warships, while France's GDF Suez gained a 9% stake in the Nord Stream pipeline.
Another project which Mr Putin is determined should go ahead is Russia's South Stream gas pipeline, across the Black Sea and into the heart of the European Union.
Moscow also tried to hire former Italian Premier Romano Prodi as chairman of a second gas pipeline, South Stream.
Russia also continues to push South Stream, a Russian-backed Black Sea pipeline.
Some compare the Mistral deal to Nord Stream, a controversial planned Russian-German gas pipeline.
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