“Thanks to cheap energy resources, we, in particular, were able to get through the existing crises quite calmly.
Our discounts on coal are 50-60%," TASS quoted him as saying.
Belousov noted that Russian suppliers sell coal at prices about two times lower than market prices, but this turns out to be cost-effective and "quite acceptable."
Earlier, Deputy Head of the Russian Ministry of Energy Sergey Mochalnikov said that coal production in Russia fell by less than 1% over the eight months of this year.