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Moscow has set a Friday deadline for gas payments to be made in rubles. Germany has called this "blackmail" and insists on paying in euros or dollars.

Why has Russia gone all out to defend its currency?

Due to globalization, countries have become increasingly interdependent on one another. When it comes to producing and using their own commodities and natural resources, the United States, Canada [...]

If "unfriendly" countries do not comply, "we will consider this a default on gas contracts, in which case existing contracts will be stopped," Putin said.

Russian President Vladimir Putin has issued a decree demanding payment for natural gas in rubles but appeared to temper the order by allowing dollar and euro payments through a designated bank.

Existing contracts that allow for payments in Western currencies must be upheld, European leaders insist, while economists contemplate Vladimir Putin’s motives.

The Biden regime's foreign policy team is filled with amateurs and half-wits whose heads are filled with Ivy League nonsense about how the world is supposed to work, as evidenced by the [...]

The Russian president has demanded that foreign buyers of Russian natural gas pay in rubles starting 1 April. The ultimatum is aimed at Western European countries that have moved to punish Russia with sanctions since the invasion of Ukraine.

The Russian government under President Vladimir Putin is hitting back at the United States and the West in general by starting a movement away from using the dollar as the world's reserve [...]

A decree signed by Russian President Vladimir Putin stipulates that Western countries must start paying for gas through a Russian bank that will transfer foreign currency into rubles.