The Minister of Energy of the Russian Federation Sergei Shmatko informed that Moscow had not still received the formal notice about the Belarusian claim for the oil duties, registered in the Economic Court of the CIS. "We have only heard about it. We haven't received any official documents from Belarus ", the Russian Minister of Energy said.
«The official answer of the Russian Ministry of Energy will be given after reception of corresponding documents. The current situation is in a legal field», the Russian news agency Novosti informs.
As Telegraf has earlier informed, the Prime Minister of Belarus Sergei Sidorsky and the head of the National Bank Piotr Prokopovich estimated the losses of the budget, after Russia changed the conditions of oil deliveries, in about two billions dollars.
