>The EU’s executive body told the EU governments in a closed meeting that the authorities were not preventing companies from opening accounts with Gazprombank and would allow them to buy gas in line with EU sanctions.
>The EU will get a taste of what this means as Russia is turning off the still-operating Nordstream 1 pipeline for ‘routine scheduled maintenance’ from next Monday, July 11th to July 21st.
It looks like Russia is also only accepting rubles for wheat [2].
This is the obvious and natural result from the sanctions. OF course they will not accept a currency they can not spend anywhere.
[1] https://www.russia-briefing.com/news/russia-insisting-paymen...
>The EU’s executive body told the EU governments in a closed meeting that the authorities were not preventing companies from opening accounts with Gazprombank and would allow them to buy gas in line with EU sanctions.
>The EU will get a taste of what this means as Russia is turning off the still-operating Nordstream 1 pipeline for ‘routine scheduled maintenance’ from next Monday, July 11th to July 21st.
[2] https://dailytimes.com.pk/962297/russia-imposes-ruble-restri...