VLADIKAVKAZ, January 29 (RIA Novosti) - Natural gas supplies to Georgia via the Mozdok-Tbilisi gas pipeline have been resumed, Kavkaztransgas, a gas transportation company that conducted the repairs said Sunday.
The energy crisis in Georgia began January 22 when explosions hit the Mozdok-Tbilisi gas pipeline in the Russian Republic of North Ossetia and a power line in southern Russia cutting off Russian gas and electricity supplies to Georgia and Armenia.
The crisis escalated when a major power failure in the early hours last Thursday in Georgia left 95% of consumers in Tbilisi, the country's capital, without electricity, while the power supply in the country's western region has been restricted to vital facilities. The east has been almost entirely cut off from power supplies.
Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili had to cut short his trip to the World Economic Forum in Davos and return home to deal with the crisis.
Georgia's International Gas Corporation said Friday that Iran had agreed to supply the country with 2 million cubic meters of natural gas daily until the Russian gas pipeline was repaired.
