Aug 12. Georgian Oil and Gas Corporation has denied information that Russian gas transit via the Georgian territory to Armenia was cut 30% due to maintenance works on the trunk pipeline. PR Director of GORC Tamara Shoshiashvili said Monday that "these data are at odds with reality" and gas transit to Armenia "is being implemented on a regular basis". According to her, maintenance works are only taking place on the pipeline in the Kazbegsky region adjacent to Russia. "They began back on July 8 and provide for the replacement of a 400 m section of the pipeline damaged last spring due to a landslide" – Shoshiashvili said. "As for the adjacent North-South trunk pipeline used to pump Russian gas via Georgia to Armenia", this pipeline "continues to operate on a regular basis. We can only see slight changes in the gas pump mode which depend on an increase or reduction in the pipe's pressure. However, this is a common thing" – she stressed. Earlier head of Russian-Armenian Aromrosgazprom Shushan Sardaryan said that natural gas supplies from Russia to Armenia since August 7 were slashed 30%.