Bulgaria hopes for renewal of direct gas supplies from Russia, says Bulgarian President

Bulgaria expects that the possibility of direct gas supplies from Russia to this country via the Black Sea will be reviewed, President of Bulgaria Rumen Radev said on Monday at a meeting with Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev.

He called the security of energy supplies very important for Sofia and for the EU as a whole. “Therefore, I hope that our governments will reconsider the possibility of direct gas supplies from Russia via the Black Sea,” Radev said.