YEREVAN. – The agenda of Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan’s visit to Moscow had a very important issue, about which no information is disseminated. This is about the reduction in the price of Russian natural gas being supplied to the Republic of Armenia (RA), Haykakan Zhamanak daily wrote.

“According to our [Armenian] governmental sources, the matter was discussed, but official information about it will be disseminated only in the case if the Russian side gives consent to reduce [the price of this] gas. 

“The Armenian side has done a lot of ‘good’ to grab such a decision from the Russians. One of the most important [respective] steps was that the RA Public Services Regulatory Commission did not review, for the past one year, the price of gas being supplied to our large consumers.

“As a result, Gazprom Armenia, which is the absolute property of the Russian Gazprom company, received additional profit throughout this time.

“And one day before Serzh Sargsyan’s visit [to Moscow], the RA government decided to wholly leave this profit to Gazprom Armenia,” Haykakan Zhamanak reported.