MOSCOW: Russia cut supplies of natural gas to Lithuania by more than half because the Baltic state refuses to pay world market prices, reporters said.
Lithuania, which won independence from Moscow after last August’s failed coup against Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev, normally receives up to seven million cubic meters of gas a day from Russia, the agency said.
it quoted Lithuanian gas industry sources as saying supplies would be cut to enterprises that had nun up large debts to Russian suppliers.
Article extracted from this publication >> September 11, 1992
