“Of course there is politics, there is nothing else but politics,” Interfax quotes him.
According to Chizhov, this is a "mixture of foreign policy", including "Western and internal German", associated with a change of government in Germany.
Earlier, German Foreign Minister Annalena Berbock said that certification of the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline continues, but does not yet comply with EU regulations.
The German regulator has suspended the certification of Nord Stream 2 AG as an independent operator of the Nord Stream 2 pipeline.
On November 16, it became known that Nord Stream 2 AG decided to establish a subsidiary in Germany in order to meet the country's requirements for certification of the German section of the pipeline.
Press Secretary of the Russian President Dmitry Peskov, answering a question about the timing of the start of gas supplies via Nord Stream 2, taking into account the suspension of certification, urged not to guess.