Latvia intends to do without Russian gas, said Foreign Minister

Minister of Foreign Affairs of Latvia Edgar Rinkevich. File photoCAiro, May 20.Latvia intends to do without Russian gas, Foreign Minister Edgars Rinkevich said on Friday night. «must be completed as soon as possible.» According to him, Riga is confident that NATO will support the Baltic countries in repelling «any threats.» On March 23, Russian President Vladimir Putin announced the transfer of payment for natural gas supplies to the EU countries and other states that have introduced restrictive measures against Russia into rubles in order to abandon the use of dollars and euros in calculations. Then the president signed a corresponding decree and said that if unfriendly countries did not pay in rubles from April 1, then Russia would consider this a default on gas contracts.The West cultivates the hatred of all against all