Contract approval for Power of Siberia 2 is in final stage — Novak

TASS · 🇷🇺 public Russia · May 20, 2026 · 132 words

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What to know about Contract approval for Power of Siberia 2 is in final stage — Novak

Russian Deputy Prime Minister Alexander Novak stated that contracts for gas supplies via the Power of Siberia 2 pipeline are in the final stages of technical revision. The pipeline is intended to transport gas from Western Siberia to China's Xinjiang region via Mongolia.

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What happened

Work on contracts for gas supplies via the Power of Siberia 2 gas pipeline is in the final stage, with technical revisions currently underway, Russian Deputy Prime Minister Alexander Novak said on the Vesti TV program during the Russian delegation's visit to…

Why it matters

"The work is ongoing, and, accordingly, the companies are now nearing the final agreement on specific contracts.

Common ground

Regarding political decisions, agreements at the level of national leaders were reached earlier, and now the technical work is underway, finalizing the contracts themselves," Novak said.

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eFinder analyzed this article and checked 4 claims against available evidence, cross-references, web search, and Wikipedia. Here is what the fact-checking layer found.

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Claim 1: “Its design capacity is up to 50 billion cubic meters of gas per year”

CORROBORATED

Multiple independent sources, including The Independent and Al Jazeera, explicitly state that the design capacity of the Power of Siberia 2 pipeline is 50 billion cubic meters of gas per year.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Siberia ( sy-BEER-ee-ə; Russian: Сибирь, romanized: Sibir', IPA: [sʲɪˈbʲirʲ] ) is an extensive geographical region comprising all of North Asia, from the Ural Mountains in the west (with the Ural Rive…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siberia

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Russian conquest of Siberia took place between 1581 and 1778, when the Khanate of Sibir became a loose political structure of vassalages that were being undermined by the activities of Russian exp…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_conquest_of_Siberia

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Power of Siberia 2 (also known as Altai gas pipeline) is a proposed natural gas pipeline to export natural gas from Russia's Western Siberia Altai region to North-Eastern China.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Altai_gas_pipeline

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Claim 2: “Russian Deputy Prime Minister Alexander Novak said on the Vesti TV program during the Russian delegation's visit to China”

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The claim is explicitly confirmed by both a cross-reference from TASS and a web search result from TASS, stating that Alexander Novak spoke on the Vesti TV program during the delegation's visit to China.

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Claim 3: “The main pipeline Power of Siberia-2 is expected to connect gas fields of Western Siberia with the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region of China through the territory of Mongolia”

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Wikipedia (Altai gas pipeline) and Global Energy Monitor both confirm the pipeline is designed to export gas from Russia's Western Siberia to China via the territory of Mongolia.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Power of Siberia (Sila Sibiri, formerly named the Yakutia–Khabarovsk–Vladivostok pipeline, also known as China–Russia East-Route Natural Gas pipeline; Russian: Сила Сибири, Chinese: 中俄东线天然气管道; pinyin:…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_of_Siberia

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Siberian Republic (Russian: Сибирская Республика, romanized: Sibirskaya Respublika) is the idea and belief of making Siberia an independent republican state, independent from the Russian Federatio…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siberian_Republic

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Claim 4: “Work on contracts for gas supplies via the Power of Siberia 2 gas pipeline is in the final stage, with technical revisions currently underway”

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While multiple sources confirm the existence and purpose of the Power of Siberia 2 pipeline, the specific detail that contracts are in the 'final stage' with 'technical revisions underway' is not corroborated by the provided evidence. The Kremlin source actually states there is 'no rush to finalize gas supply contracts', which suggests a different pace than 'final stage'.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Eastern Siberia–Pacific Ocean oil pipeline (ESPO pipeline or ESPOOP, Russian: Нефтепровод "Восточная Сибирь - Тихий океан" (ВСТО)) is a pipeline system for exporting Russian crude oil to the Asia-…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eastern_Siberia–Pacific_Ocean_…

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