Volodin said that Europe will have to compensate Russia for the damage from sanctions

against RUSSIA are illegal, European countries will have to compensate for the damage they caused to the country's economy, Vyacheslav Volodin believes. According to him,

The damage caused by the sanctions of European countries to the Russian economy will have to be compensated, says State Duma Speaker Vyacheslav Volodin. He wrote about this in TELEGRAM.

According to him, European countries that are still considering whether to pay for Russian gas in rubles should remember that sanctions against Russia are illegal. “We will return to this topic and consider the damage that you have caused to our economy. You will have to compensate anyway. How and when is a matter of time,” said the speaker of the State Duma.

Volodin also pointed out that Russia has somewhere to redirect energy supplies. “Especially as partners you are nothing. You are constantly stealing gas reserves, actually taking money from the country's budget, which means from our citizens. Emphasize that you will look for other suppliers in the future. Thus, you put an end to long-term relationships, ”he added.

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At the end of March, Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a decree that involves the introduction of a new scheme for gas payments with European countries. This scheme involves the obligatory opening of a ruble account in a Russian bank, from which energy supplies must be paid from April 1.

The decision was made after the United States and the European Union imposed sanctions against Russia due to Russia's special operation in Ukraine, which imply the freezing of gold and foreign exchange reserves and restrictions on transactions in dollars and euros. If buyers of energy resources do not comply with the requirement to open ruble accounts, then Russia will consider this "a default on the part of the buyer with all the ensuing consequences," the president said.

The G7 countries said they consider the requirement to pay in rubles for Russian gas supplies unacceptable. In particular, the leaders of France and Germany, as well as Alfred Stern, DIRECTOR of the Austrian OMV, one of Gazprom's main partners in Europe, said that Moscow's demand violates the rules of existing contracts.

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At the same time, Russian Ambassador to Hungary Yevgeny Stanislavov reported that the Hungarian energy company MVM and Gazprom were negotiating the conversion of gas payments into rubles. Slovak Prime Minister Eduard Heger did not rule out such an option, although he said that this would only increase the country's dependence on Russian gas. Armenia began to pay for gas in Russian rubles (it is not included in the list of unfriendly ones), Minister of Economy of the country Vagan Kerobyan said in an interview with RBC.

On April 18, Russian presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov refused to disclose which countries nevertheless agreed to buy gas for rubles.