Debt of gas consumers in Russia’s North Caucasus makes almost 100 bln rubles

Over the past year, overdue debts of Russian gas consumers increased by 4.1 billion rubles, reaching 178.4 billion rubles. The bulk of the debt accounts for the North Caucasus Federal District .

"Most of the overdue debts still account for the North Caucasus Federal District regions - 99.2 billion rubles. Despite the difficult situation in 2020, the level of payments by consumers in the North Caucasus Federal District as a whole increased by 1.6% and amounted to 73, 4%," deputy chairman of the board of Gazprom Vitaly Markelov said in an interview with the corporate Gazprom magazine.

He noted that many regions reduced the amount of their gas debts last year - by a total of 8 billion rubles. The debts were repaid most actively in the Volgograd, Moscow, Astrakhan, Ulyanovsk regions, as well as in Tatarstan.