Deputy prime minister Dmitry Medvedev is in Serbia today, supposedly to focus on South Stream, a €10 billion ($14.65 billion) project designed to bring Siberian gas to Europe via the Black Sea, but also as a show of support after Russia supported the Balkan nation’s opposition to the independence of Kosovo. The Bush administration has urged the EU to “stop dithering” over the building of the $6bn Nabucco gas pipeline from the Caspian basin to central Europe, and reduce its growing dependence on Gazprom. “Gazprom is an instrument of Russian foreign policy, like American oil companies are instruments of American foreign policy.” Gazprom has reported an agreement to explore and develop energy reserves in Iran, saying it will work with Iranian companies to develop the South Pars field, and will carry out about $110 million worth of exploration work in Libya after signing a production sharing agreement with the Libyan government.