Russian President Vladimir Putin. File photoTEHRAN, Jul 20Russian President Vladimir Putin said that Europe neglected traditional energy and relied on alternative sources. «I have already said this many times, I do not know whether to go into details on about the energy policy of European countries that have neglected the importance of traditional types of energy and have relied on non-traditional ones. They are great experts in the field of non-traditional relations. So in the field of energy they decided to rely on non-traditional types of energy: the sun, wind energy. The winter turned out to be long. The winds are not was. That's all,» Putin said at a press conference following a working visit to Iran, answering a question about whether Russia is rightly blamed for the energy crisis.
Putin assessed the possibility of the West restricting purchases of Russian oil
