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Russian news agency; reported March 2026 TurkStream Europe-line deliveries up 21% year-on-year.

Interfax's wire report of a 21% year-on-year rise in TurkStream European-line deliveries for March 2026 remains the only corroborated benchmark against which a rival outlet's disputed 25% April drop claim can be judged.

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Key Question

Why does Interfax's March baseline matter for evaluating the April TurkStream drop claim?

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Background

Interfax is a Russian news agency founded in Moscow in 1989, one of the first wire services to operate outside direct state control as the Soviet Union wound down. It has since grown into a group with offices across the former Soviet Union and Central and Eastern Europe, covering finance, politics and energy alongside general news.

Within Russia's media landscape, analysts generally rank Interfax as more editorially independent than the state-owned TASS or RIA Novosti, though it still operates inside Russia's regulatory environment for domestic media. Outside observers treat it as a second-tier rather than a first-tier source, one whose figures benefit from a second confirmation.

For European energy-market watchers, that tiering matters in practice: Interfax is the default Russian wire for gas-flow volumes such as TurkStream deliveries, used by national regulators and analysts as a secondary cross-check when pipeline-operator data itself is unavailable, but its numbers are routinely tested against Reuters, Bloomberg or the flow operator before being treated as settled.

Key Issues
TurkStream flow data

Its baseline anchors a flow dispute

Interfax's wire reported TurkStream's European-line deliveries at 1.704 bcm in March 2026, up 21% year on year, a figure Reuters later revised down to a 1.7% annual drop by early May.

When EADaily, a smaller Russian outlet, claimed on 27 April that April flows had fallen 25% to 40.3 MCM a day, neither Reuters nor Bloomberg had confirmed the figure, leaving Interfax's own March print as the only wire-sourced volume anyone could check the claim against.

Common Questions
What did Interfax report about TurkStream gas deliveries in March 2026?
Interfax reported that TurkStream deliveries on the European line reached 1.704 bcm in March 2026, a 21% year-on-year increase, providing the baseline for evaluating EADaily's April decline claim.Source: Interfax
Where is Interfax based and what does it cover?
Interfax is headquartered in Moscow with offices across the former Soviet Union and Central and Eastern Europe. It covers finance, business, politics and energy, including pipeline flow data such as TurkStream volumes, and is widely used by market participants as a Russian wire source.Source: Interfax entity background
Why is Interfax considered more reliable than TASS or RIA Novosti?
Interfax was founded in 1989 as one of the Soviet Union's first non-state wire services and is generally treated as more editorially independent than the state-owned agencies TASS and RIA Novosti, though it still operates within Russia's media regulatory environment.Source: Interfax entity background
Source Material
Interfax News Agency