Firewood. File photoCHISINAU, Aug 28In the Gagauz autonomy of Moldova, there may not be enough firewood for the winter, said the head of one of the districts of the region, Ivan Topal. Moldova is experiencing an energy crisis due to rising energy prices. The central authorities of the republic are making attempts to provide the country with firewood, coal and fuel oil. In Moldova, 660,000 families live in houses with stove heating. In general, the country's population consumes more than one million cubic meters of firewood during the cold season. The Moldsilva Forestry Agency predicts that it will be able to provide about 800 thousand cubic meters of the required volume. The administration of the autonomy notes that in total 19 thousand 986 families in Gagauzia need firewood in the amount of 93 thousand 882 warehouse meters. Most of the applications came from residents of the Comrat region. «In the Comrat region, 12 thousand 134 families need firewood. They requested 47 thousand 777 warehouse meters, but representatives of the local Leskhoz can provide only 3 thousand 165 warehouse meters before winter, this is only 6.6% of the total number of firewood requested,» Topal said, quoted by GagauzINFO on Sunday. in the south of Moldova. In February 2014, a referendum was held in the autonomy on the issue of determining the vector of the country's foreign policy. More than 98% of its participants were in favor of integrating Moldova into the Customs Union — a trade and economic union, which at that time included Russia, Belarus and Kazakhstan. In mid-July, protests began in the autonomy, hundreds of motorists expressed indignation at rising fuel prices. The demonstrators appealed to the authorities of the country with demands to temporarily cancel the excise rate on gasoline, annul amendments to the law on petroleum products, due to which the national market regulator is obliged to raise gasoline prices daily. They noted that if they were not heard, they would hold protests in Chisinau.
