Belarus is unlikely to receive gas discount from Russia
The price of Russian gas supplied to Belarus to likely to remain at the current level of $142 per thousand cubic meters, Radio Svoboda reported.
This was announced by Russian Energy Minister Alexander Novak.
According to him, the current contract for 2015-2016 “has not been cancelled”. Russia believes that Belarus owes $125 million to Gazprom. Minsk does not recognize the debt, saying that, according to their own calculations based on the fall of the ruble against the dollar, their price should be $73 per thousand cubic meters.
“There is no debt. Belarus pays in accordance with the intergovernmental agreements,” Belarusian Minister of Energy Vladimir Potupchik recently stated.