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Four European Gas Buyers Made Ruble Payments to Russia
Four European gas buyers have already paid for supplies in rubles as President Vladimir Putin demanded, according to a person close to Russian gas giant Gazprom PJSC.
www.bloomberg.com
EU Plans to Issue Detailed Guidance on Russia’s Rubles-for-Gas Demand
The European Union will provide more detailed guidance in the coming days on what companies can and can’t do under EU sanctions rules to address Russia’s demands to pay for gas in rubles as governments fear the economic risk of Moscow halting supplies.
www.bloomberg.com
Explained: Putin’s demand for trade in rubles, and how it could work
Why has Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered that importers of gas must pay in rubles rather than dollars or euros. What are the ramifications for Russia and the West, as well as India? How does China gain?
indianexpress.com
Thanks to the sanctions, Russian firms no longer have any use for the dollar or the euro. As such, European firms will now have to find intermediaries — those that accept dollars and euros, convert them to rubles, and give them to the Europeans so that they can pay for the natural gas imports.
The key question is: If direct dollar/euro to ruble exchange is not possible, then which currency would be used as an intermediary? The most likely answer is the Chinese yuan. In such a scenario, dollars/euros will be exchanged for yuan and that, in turn, will be exchanged for rubles.
There is another fallout, which could hurt the US and undermine the dominance of the dollar as the go-to currency across the world. If the Chinese yuan replaces the dollar in trade with Russia — and typically daily trades would be worth billions of dollars — then it would lead to “de-dollarisation” (a term that implies the global financial system’s reduced reliance on the dollar).