“To buy Russian natural gas, they have to open ruble accounts in Russian banks. From these accounts, payments will be made for the gas delivered from tomorrow,” Putin said. “If these ...

Now they must transfer foreign currencies to Gazprombank, which will buy rubles on the market and transfer the Russian currency to importers’ special ruble accounts. EU involvement in Ukraine ...

Russian consumers are buying record amounts of gold ... surging inflation and strict sanctions eat into the value of the ruble domestically and internationally. Russia's statistics agency has ...