Interfax

Interfax is one of Russia's major independent news agencies, founded in 1989 as one of the Soviet Union's first non-state wire services. In the context of European energy market monitoring, Interfax reported that TurkStream deliveries on the European line reached 1.704 bcm in March 2026, a 21% year-on-year increase — the wire-service baseline against which EADaily's subsequent April figure of 40.3 mcm/day (claimed -25% versus March) should be measured.

Interfax was established in Moscow and now operates as a news conglomerate with offices across the former Soviet Union and in Central and Eastern Europe. It covers finance, business, politics, and energy, and is widely used by market participants as the primary Russian wire source for commodity flow data, corporate announcements, and official statements. It is generally classified as more editorially independent than state-owned TASS or RIA Novosti, though it operates within Russia's regulatory environment for media.

For European energy analysts, Interfax's TurkStream data provides the corroborated volume baseline that EADaily's April figure must be evaluated against. The discrepancy — a strong March followed by a claimed sharp April drop — is unresolved without a second-source confirmation of the April numbers.