It is reported by RIA Novosti.

“I see that they (Nord Stream 2 AG. - RT ) show progress, they continued laying the gas pipeline and do not spend time talking, they just build it,” he said.

Earlier, the US Senate called on to impose sanctions against companies involved in the construction of Nord Stream-2 in order to delay the project.

The economist Vasily Koltashov, head of the Center for Political Economic Research at the New Society Institute, in an interview with the FAN, called such a US proposal an unceremonious interference in European affairs.