By mid May 2022 seventeen countries in Europe, including Germany and Italy, agreed to open accounts with [[Gazprom]]bank, as Russia advised them to do and to pay for oil and gas in rubles.
By mid May 2022 seventeen countries in Europe, including Germany and Italy, agreed to open accounts with [[Gazprom]]bank, as Russia advised them to do and to pay for oil and gas in rubles.
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Not long after the U.S. convinced its European satellites to boycott Russian liquified natural gas (LGN) and buy it from the U.S. at a much higher price, a fire put a [[Texas]] LGN plant offline.
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Not long after the U.S. convinced its European satellites to boycott Russian liquified natural gas (LGN) and buy it from the U.S. at a much higher price, a fire put a [[Texas]] plant, which processed LGN for export, offline.