Several patrons of Russian gasoline have agreed to change to funds in roubles, Russian Deputy Prime Minister Alexander Novak stated on Friday.
“We count on the choice (to change to roubles) from different importers,” he added, in feedback revealed within the ministry’s in-house journal. He didn’t disclose the identities of consumers who had already switched.
President Vladimir Putin stated final month that patrons of Russian gasoline from “unfriendly” international locations ought to pay in roubles, a transfer rejected by European Union authorities beneath the bloc’s sanctions regime in opposition to Moscow.
Putin has warned Europe it risked having gasoline provides reduce except it pays within the Russian forex as he seeks to retaliate over the sanctions, imposed over what Moscow calls its “particular army operation” in Ukraine.
In March, he proposed that power patrons open accounts at Gazprombank, the place funds in euros or {dollars} could be transformed to roubles.
Armenia made a number of funds for provides of Russian pure gasoline in roubles, its Financial system Minister Vagan Kerobyan stated in an interview with Russian media outlet RBC on Friday.
