MOSCOW, may 5 - RIA Novosti/Prime." Gazprom after months of negotiations, agreed to give discounts to private Turkish companies, which account for over one third of gas imports from Russia, wrote on Tuesday the newspaper " ". the story is about the companies Enerco Enerji, Bosphorus gas, Avrasya gaz, Shell, Bati Hatti, Akfel gas and Kibar Enerji. According to the publication, before the organization had to pay for gas at the price 2014 - 374 dollars per thousand cubic meters, which is much higher than the current market level in the EU. Now in the 1st quarter of the cost will not exceed $ 300 per thousand cubic meters in the 2nd quarter is about 260 dollars per thousand cubic meters. Also changed the pricing in the contract: instead of fixed rates that are in effect in 2014, the parties returned to oil indexation. The new contract will be valid retroactively From January 1 until the end of the year, "Gazprom" is obliged to be returned to the importers part payments already made: analysis of the publication of 250-300 million dollars. The total amount of gas from Russia under contracts of private Turkish importers - 10 billion cubic meters a year, gas is fed via the TRANS-Balkan gas pipeline through Ukraine. In 2014, Turkey bought from Gazprom 27, 3 billion cubic meters, but the bulk was made by the state company Botas. "Gazprom" also conducts dialogues about the discount. From the outset it was expected that private importers will receive a discount after the end of the talks between Gazprom and Botas: the import cost for the private sector should be lower than for state-owned companies, so they can work on subsidized domestic market of Turkey." Gazprom and Botas for 3 months of negotiations agreed on the discount, but are unable to come to a common opinion which component contract formula to apply.