“Our position is clear.

We are committed to existing agreements and will not pay in rubles, we have no such intention, ”TASS quoted him as saying.

At the same time, Alfred Stern, the head of the Austrian company OMV, said earlier that Europe is currently not ready to refuse Russian gas supplies.

Former Austrian Foreign Minister Karin Kneissl, in an interview with RT, announced the big role of Russian gas in the Bulgarian economy.