Turkmenistan has proposed raising by 30% the price that Russia's OAO
Gazprom pays for the country's gas, news agency Interfax
reported Thursday, citing Gazprom Chief Executive Alexei Miller.
Business daily Kommersant reported in September that
Turkmenistan President Gurgbanbuly Berdymukhamedov was intending to ask
OAO Gazprom to pay substantially more for gas supplies.
Gazprom last year signed a four-year contract with
then-president Sapamurat Niyazov for a total of 162 billion cubic
meters of gas at $100 per thousand cubic meters. The conditions under
which this contract may be revised aren't in the public domain.