Twenty European natural gas buyers have opened accounts with Gazprombank so they can pay in rubles, a person close to Kremlin-controlled energy giant Gazprom told Bloomberg.
A further 14 companies have requested the paperwork to set up accounts with Gazprombank, the anonymous source said in an article published on Thursday. It comes after Russia halted gas supplies to Poland and Bulgaria in late April for failing to pay in rubles.-- More...
