The question of Russian debt accumulated under the Yamburg agreement for the supply of natural gas has been resolved and a timetable agreed on the supply to Bulgaria of 312 million cubic metres of gas free of charge.
The supply will begin this month and end in November.
This was announced Monday by Bulgarian National Radio in a report on Energy Minister Milko Kovachev’s visit to Moscow.
Contracts between Kozlodui nuclear power plant and the Russian government owned company which supplies fresh nuclear fuel in the next few years for the current price, have been confirmed.
Russian energy ministry officials expressed interest in the Bulgarian nuclear strategy, in privatisation issues, and the Bourgas-Alexandroupolis oil pipeline construction.
Kovachev said that after the completion of the technical and economic study, serious steps should be taken to prove the economic efficiency of the project and determine what sides should be involved in its implementation.
He also had meetings with Gazprom, the state-owned Russian company that sells natural gas. Gazprom believes that natural gas prices are reasonable and major changes cannot be expected.
A joint protocol in the field of power engineering has been drafted and is expected to be discussed and signed at the forthcoming session of the Joint Bulgarian-Russian Commission for Cooperation.
Representatives of the Unified Energy System of Russia said they wanted to take part in the Bulgarian and Balkan electricity market as suppliers and traders.
At the Ministry of Atomic Energy, Kovachev met representatives of Russian companies ready to take part in upgrading two of the reactors of the Kozlodoui N-plant.
News of another development of Bulgarian-Russian economic relations came last Friday. An agreement that would ease the visa regulations between Bulgaria and Russia would be signed in Sofia in late February or early March at the latest, Russian Ambassador to Sofia Vladimir Titov told the press.
The Russian Embassy on Friday hosted a working meeting with Economy Minister Nikolai Vassilev in preparation for the February 21 to 22 session of the Bulgarian-Russian intergovernmental committee for economic, scientific and technical cooperation.
Bulgarian exports to Russia this year are likely to top $200 million, Vassilev said. The joint committee was to discuss at its session measures to facilitate trade and overcome the non-tariff barriers.
In 2000, Bulgarian exports to Russia totalled $117 million and then rose by 25 per cent in 2001, Vassilev said.
The supply will begin this month and end in November.
This was announced Monday by Bulgarian National Radio in a report on Energy Minister Milko Kovachev’s visit to Moscow.
Contracts between Kozlodui nuclear power plant and the Russian government owned company which supplies fresh nuclear fuel in the next few years for the current price, have been confirmed.
Russian energy ministry officials expressed interest in the Bulgarian nuclear strategy, in privatisation issues, and the Bourgas-Alexandroupolis oil pipeline construction.
Kovachev said that after the completion of the technical and economic study, serious steps should be taken to prove the economic efficiency of the project and determine what sides should be involved in its implementation.
He also had meetings with Gazprom, the state-owned Russian company that sells natural gas. Gazprom believes that natural gas prices are reasonable and major changes cannot be expected.
A joint protocol in the field of power engineering has been drafted and is expected to be discussed and signed at the forthcoming session of the Joint Bulgarian-Russian Commission for Cooperation.
Representatives of the Unified Energy System of Russia said they wanted to take part in the Bulgarian and Balkan electricity market as suppliers and traders.
At the Ministry of Atomic Energy, Kovachev met representatives of Russian companies ready to take part in upgrading two of the reactors of the Kozlodoui N-plant.
News of another development of Bulgarian-Russian economic relations came last Friday. An agreement that would ease the visa regulations between Bulgaria and Russia would be signed in Sofia in late February or early March at the latest, Russian Ambassador to Sofia Vladimir Titov told the press.
The Russian Embassy on Friday hosted a working meeting with Economy Minister Nikolai Vassilev in preparation for the February 21 to 22 session of the Bulgarian-Russian intergovernmental committee for economic, scientific and technical cooperation.
Bulgarian exports to Russia this year are likely to top $200 million, Vassilev said. The joint committee was to discuss at its session measures to facilitate trade and overcome the non-tariff barriers.
In 2000, Bulgarian exports to Russia totalled $117 million and then rose by 25 per cent in 2001, Vassilev said.
