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| This photo shows a
worker jointing a pipe, when Gazprom built the Black Sea
Pipeline. (Xinhua/file
photo) | VIENNA, Jan. 2
(Xinhuanet) -- Russia has fully resumed gas supplies to European Union (EU)
countries, Wolfgang Ruttensdorfer, chief of Austria's biggest oil company OMV,
confirmed on Monday.
Ruttensdorfer said Russia's state-controlled Gazprom
has increased its gas supply capacity in the region bordering Ukraine and
restarted supplies to EU consumers.
Gazprom cut off gas supplies to Ukraine on Sunday
after Kiev rejected Moscow's demand for a sharp rise in gas prices starting from
2006. Russia's gas supplies to some EU countries were immediately affected.
Approximately 25 percent of the gas consumed in the
EU is imported from Russia, and most of that is sent through pipelines which
cross Ukraine.
On Monday, senior diplomats from Austria, which
currently holds the EU's rotating presidency, summoned Russian and Ukrainian
diplomats to express the bloc's concern about the Russia-Ukraine gas dispute.
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