The decision on the payment of gas for “unfriendly” countries in rubles was adopted in order for Russia because of sanctions, Russia and the euro stated the press secretary of the Russian President Dmitry Sadkov. According to him, such a scheme will apply to other goods subject to export. This is reported by Kommersant.
on the air program “Moscow. Kremlin. Putin” Peskov agreed with the thesis of the interviewer that the decision to pay gas in rubles was not taken not to “click someone on the nose”, and in order to secure Russian trading to ensure that Russia has not selected Dollars and Euros received for gas.
“But I have no doubt that in the future the payment scheme in rubles will be distributed to new groups of goods. And it will take more and more space in our foreign trade relations,” said the press secretary of the President of the Russian Federation.