“Participants of the action sought to put the pipeline into operation.
The police and security forces dispersed them, ”RIA Novosti quotes the text of the publication.
In other media, it is noted that one of the participants in the action, who was dressed in overalls, managed to enter the station itself.
Others said they were entitled to use gas from the pipeline because it was built with their taxes.
The Nord Stream gas pipeline will suspend operation for three days from August 31 to carry out scheduled maintenance at the only operating unit at the Portovaya station.
After that, upon completion of work and the absence of technical malfunctions, the pipeline will return to the pumping rate of 33 million cubic meters.
m per day.