Ditching Gazprom Costs Moldova $1.16Bln Annually - Shoigu

MOSCOW (Sputnik) - In his article Moldova at a Crossroads for Sputnik, Russian Security Council Secretary Sergei Shoigu called Chisinau's refusal to buy gas directly from Gazprom "a shot in the foot", since the Moldovan budget loses more than 1 billion euros ($1.16 billion) a year from this.