Russia offered the EU to pay for gas from ruble accounts in a Russian bank Rossiya

Russia has offered gas buyers from unfriendly countries a new payment scheme, which involves the obligatory opening of a ruble account in a Russian bank, RBC sources say.

“The proposed scheme requires the mandatory opening of accounts in Russian rubles in a Russian bank by a foreign buyer of Russian gas,” a government source told RBC. According to him, "the payment from the buyer to Gazprom will have to be made exclusively in rubles." A source close to Gazprom confirmed the structure of the proposed scheme.

The day before, Reuters wrote, citing its sources, that a scheme was being discussed under which payment could be made in euros in ruble equivalent at the Central Bank rate on a pre-agreed settlement day. At the same time, the currency of the contract does not change, it is only about the currency of payment, the source of the agency said.

RBC sent a request to the government press service and the official representative of Gazprom, Sergei Kupriyanov.