Georgia has held talks with Gazprom on receiving additional natural gas from Russia, Georgia's energy ministry said on Tuesday, a move that has been criticised for potentially making the country more dependent on its former Soviet master.
Georgia imports most of its natural gas from Azerbaijan but also gets 10 percent of the gas transported across it by Russia to Armenia as a transit fee.
Azerbaijan supplied about 87.1 percent of Georgia's total consumption of 2.17 billion cubic meters (bcm) in 2014.
Kakha Kaladze, Georgia's energy minister, said last week that additional gas volumes were needed because of increasing gas consumption in Georgia, which is expected to reach 2.5 bcm in 2015, a 27 percent increase from 2012.
Kaladze, a retired soccer player who played for Italy's Serie A club AC Milan, met with Alexei Miller, Gazprom's chief executive in Milan on Monday.
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